TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1064, 17 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PUK.SS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON. Sentember 10. The New X ealr.'.ul Shipping Compairr sold their fleet of steamers comprising the llangatira, Manawahi, Siormbird. and Jane Douglas, by auction this afternoon, and realised L 15.500, the Hon. John Martin and Messrs. W. Burt and D. Anderson, the largest shareholders, being the buyers. The purchase includes the Company's ofiices and hulks. The annual report of the Choral Society shows that it is not in a flourishing condition, having a balance of only a tew shillings in the bank. The report also shows a decrease in the active members. The society recently formed to prevent Chinese being engaged as cooks or waiters in hotels intend to protest ag: ; nst any Chinese being engaged on board the steamers. September 17. At the declaration of the Hutt election. Mr. Jackson said he intended petitioning against Mr. Mason's return on the ground of alleged irregularities. DUNEDIN. September 10. The city members received the following telegram to-daj 7 , from the Minister for Public Works :—" I have communicated with Mr. Blair with a view of providing immediate employment to those on whose behalf you have wired. I apprehend that I the unemployed iti Dimedin now consist largely of those who would desiderate the possession of small holdings of their own, which could ao far place them beyond the vicissitudes of the labor market, by affording them the means of providing food for themselves when not working for others. It is therefore purposed to be sought from the Legislature to lay off at once villages and settlements adjacent to some of the railway lines, on the construction of which employment will be found. lam in hopes that by this means wo may largely remove the anomaly of unemployed in a country in which the term should bo practically unknown. —J. Macaxdrew. " CHRISTCKURCH. September IG. A buggy was upset yesterday going over the Waimakariri bridge, and the passengers were thrown out. A son of the L.yttelton Resident Magistrate, besides other injuries, had his lower jaw badly broken. A good deal of talk has been occasioned to-day by the very plainspoken article in the Lyttelton Times this morning, from the pen of its well-known travelling correspondent, on tue Duiicdin tire. He gives some facts about the building which were not hitherto known here, and the reported arrest of Waters, and the turn the inquest has assumed gives great significance to his remarks. AUCKLAND. , ri Sepic,'i 10. It is stated tiiat a Chinaman in Auckland, in conjunction with other Chinese iirms in New Zealand, and backed by a powerful conVotnation oi tiieir countrymen In Hong Kong, is about to try the experiment of importing into this province, as well as in other parts of the colony, a Completely or ganised party of Chinamen representing various trades and callings, in order to compete with local workmen. A pensioner mimed James Uoulon Inu died suddenly at Ziezlov's boarding-house, fie has been drinking heavily. A post mortem examination revealed, the iact that death arose from natural causes. September 17. The s.s. Pretty Jane has been sold for LloOO, to be employed in Fiji and interisland trade, connecting with M'Meckan and Co. 's steamer trading thence to Australia. The Zealandia sailed ai midnight for •San Fmicisco, with forty-sis passengers. The seventli anniversary of the Journeymen Bakers' Association was celebrated by a ball. Mr. 11. Graham, having succeeded in his appeal against the decision of the Resident Magistrate's Court in regard to selling land at ilotorua upon which the Government land purchase agents had made deposits, is endeavoring to see what ilie Government will do, and whether they will allow him to go on the land again and will not take any action to oust him, TIMARU. Septembt c 10. All the Gladstone returns arc now in. Mr. Studholme has been officially declared elected by a majority of 13-1 over Dr. Deane, the Ministerial candidate.