TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 533, 15 June 1880, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

TO THE “ MAIL." TRADE IMPROVING. Dnnedin, lllln In anticipation of a new tariff, considerably more goods were cleared last month than during the corresponding period Inst year. The Customs receipts show the following increases :—Tea, £3152 ; sugar, £396s;case spirits, £4049; kerosene, £600; ale in bulk (imported), £2OO ; in bottle £2OO. FIRST DIRECT STEAMER. SMALL POX ON BOA HD. Lyttelton, Monday. ‘ The s.s Norfolk, the first of the Money Wigram line of steamers that, is plying experimentally to this colony direct from London, arrived at this port on Saturday. She was first reported all well, and some landed ; but it was. then dis* discovcfed that there were three cases of small-pox on board, and the steamer was then ordered into quarantine. This will be a great inconvenience to the large number of passengers on hoard. WEALTH AND STARVATION. Christchurch, Monday. • It is found that various Road Boards in Canterbury had cash in hand on January 1 amounting in the aggregate to £346,063; and the public are calling on these bodies to provide work within their districts for the unemployed, so as to do away with the scandal of having soup kitchens in their midst. The bulk of these funds has been derived from subsidies, and not from taxation. A public meeting of citizens is being held in the Odd Fellows’ Hall tonight, to consider the question of unemployed in Canterbury. Three hundred and ten persons were supplied with soup and bread last night and to-day by the Benevolent Society.

HARD LABOUR. Auckland, 13th. A woman was locked up for drunkenness, but towards midnight she ca led f< r a doctor, and it becama necessary to carry her out on a stretcher to her home, where in an hour she presented her husband with a son. A NEW EXHIBITION. Invercargill, Monday. The Dipton rabbit-fur show is a great success, exhibits being received from all parts of Southland. The exhibits number about 300, and are dressed in various styles, representing some fine varieties. ALLEGED ARSON. Timaru, 13th. The notable arson case against Charles Clarke, Annie Clarke, George Hayes, and A. Thompson occupied the Supreme Court all yesterday and till ten o’clock last night, when a verdict of not guilty was returned. The jury added that there were strong suspicions against Clark and Thompson.