LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 480, 14 June 1890, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(By Electric Telegraph). (prom our own oorresponhunt). LATEST FROM AUCKLAND. PROPOSED PUHIPUHI RAILWAY. AUCKLAND, Last Night. The Whangam delegates met at the Chamber of Commerce, and several Auckland members to-day, to advocate the construction of the Puhipuhi railway. They stated it would save one hundred and thirty thousand pounds worth of timber. Messrs Moss, Lawry, and Peacock, M.’sH.R., expressed their willingness to support a Bill, provided it were not tacked on to something else, which would be most injurious ;to the Colony. SPORTING NOTES. The privileges of the Auckland Trotting Association meeting were sold to-day, and realised fair prices. The race horse Te Kooti was offered at Hunter and Nolan’s to-day, the best bid was 115 guineas, and he was passed in. The jumper, The Banker, also failed to fetch the reserve. Gip was also passed in at Buckland’s sale, ACCIDENT TO S.S. GAIRLOCH. OBLIGED TO PUT BACK TO AUCKLAND. The Northern Steamship Company’s steamer Gairloch, which left Manukau yesterday for Waitara with passengers and cargo, has returned to Onehunga disabled. Yesterday afternoon when off Woodyheal, a Unit. 45 miles south of the Manukau the outer portion of the port shaft, together with the propeller blades broke off outside the hull and sank in deep water. THE TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL. TROUBLE BREWING AT WELLINGTON. The Trades and Labour Council have desided to insist on the Tramway Company accepting the same terms as the Bus Company, namely, 66 hours per week for grooms and 72 for guards ; the wages for drivers to be 45s per week ; for guards 20s to 25s ; grooms 40s to 455. The minimum only to apply to new and unskilled hands. The Council consider the scheme proposed by the Tramway owners as visionary and unstable, and intend if necessary to enforce the adoption of their proposals. BARMAID FOUND DROWNED. The body of a young woman, Delia Lanahan, barmaid, was found floating in the harbour this morning. She is supposed' to have . been accidentally drowned.