TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1415, 7 November 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Bishop Redwood and the Rev. Fathom Goutenoire and Seanzeau left Wellington for Sydney on Tuesday per Tekapo. The United States corvette Enterprise left for New York via Valparaiso yesterday. At a meeting of. the Benevolent Society, Wellington, the opinion of some of the members of the Committee with regard to the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act was that the more it is perused the more inexplicable are some of its provisions, arid the more unworkable ir promises to be. The general impression appeared to be that the Act would require to be amended in more directions than one next session if it was intended to be reasonably workable. The National Insurance ' Company's annual report shows :—Premiums, nett, £215,000; interest, £14,590; losses, £163,967; working expenses, £58,703. The lohh is 103.55 per cent to the premium income. Having iuid a dividend in March last, absorbing £7354, the Directors did not recommend a further distribution, helieving Buch a policy would give better results on future operations. " A paper was read before a public meeting at Dunedin, on Wednesday night by !Vlt j. M. Ritchie on the depression, its cause and cure 1 , from a free trade point of view, and a long ; discussion took place afterwards. Mr Jarrios Mcßride, an old resident at Queenstown (Otago), was drowned on Wednesday by a boat capsizing, and his five children were left orphans. At a meeting of shipowners and others interested in the; shipping-business, in Auckland on Thursday, it was resolved—- " That shipowners and others interested in the shipping of Auckland, communicite with the owners of shipping in all parts of New Zealand and Australia, to unite to resist what is regarded as an undue f'emand of laborers, even rothe extent of hying up their vessels;" "That a Committee of four men be appointed for the ourpose of obtaining oil nksisUnce in Hilling down the present obnoxious ,>'esstiro placed upon shipping interests by the Seaman's nnd Firerrien's Union, ind fixing the rat© of wages'; steamers to bo laid up if necessary until snch time as •..itisfafitory arrangements can be mnde to '•arrv on their business." A Committee )f four wns appointed to give effect to the Utter resolution.