TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1320, 28 March 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Owing to reductions in wages by the Auckland Tobacco Company, a number of imported cigar-makers'"'from Sydney and Melbourne are retuining there. A project is on foot in Auckland to establish a woollen manufacturing company in Auckland with a capital of £50,000, and a directorate embracing gentlemen from all centres of population in the North Island. The reduction in the Audit Office involves the retirement from service of all officers in the revenue branch.

The Lyttelton Harbor Board have decided that the import wharfage charge shall, in future, only be levied on general merchandise, and no charge made for re-shipment on goods that luve paid inward wharfage. They intend to represent to the Government that the Railway Department charges for loading and transhipping goods are still too high and out of all proportion to the trade of the port.

A start has been made with the erection of the Exhibition buildings. The contract time is three months, and the contractors have received notice that fines will be strictly enforced for non-com-pletion within that period. The Rev. Jas. Gumming, Inspector of the North Canterbury Education Board, died in Dunedin last Thursday. He arrived in Dunedin a week ago, and had only been confined to bed three days in his hotel. He has not been in good health for some time.

An offer has been made by a number of residents in Lyttelton to form a battery of artillery in that seaport. Drs Grabham and Giles, who held an inquiry into the admittance of a puerperal fever patient into the Wellington Hospital last month have reportoi at length. Their report enters into full details of the case, but does not blame anyone in particular for the unfortunate casualty. They recommend various ways which would prevent a recurrence of the affair. E. H. Taylor, of Wellington, boatbuilder, has been committed for trial on a' charge of perjury. His offence was committed in connection with pawning a quantity or clothing, and handing a man named Barnes the ticket in liquidation of a sporting wager. Subsequently Taylor visited the pawnbroker and told him be had lost the ticket but wanted to redeem the goods. Taylor filled up a declaration to the effect that the ticket was lost, and upon such declaration the case rests.