Untitled

Temuka Leader, Issue 1824, 4 December 1888, Page 3

There ate about eighty men on the relief works >t Woodville at preeent, end they ere earning from half a crown to eeren a hilling* a day. The contractor* for the Gorge line. North Island Trank Bailway, hare obtained a concession from the Government allowing them to tunnel behind a large slip in the Gorge, as a safer work and a saving of cost. At Billyer’s creek, Auckland, a m n attempted a criminal assault on the daughter of a respectable settler. A force of police have gone up and are hunting the accused through the bush. A young man named Ooz, employed at Fen* ton and Oo.’e hat factory, Auckland,received an injury of a painful nature. While practising with his comrade* with a spring gua he got accidentally struck in the eye, and will probably lose the sight in the wounded eye permanently. The Rev. A. Bead preached at the Grafton Road Wesleyan Church, Auckland, on Sunday, on 41 Printers' Sunday," condemning the employment of men for the sake of bringing out Monday morning papers. A large congregation unanimously carried a resolution disapproving of Sunday work on newspapers. A Portuguese named Gotney lately died after receiving relief from the Auckland Charitable Aid Board to the amount of 4100. His children were sent to the Industrial school. His widow, who has just received a legacy of £9OO, has offered to take the children home and offers to pay the amount expended on their board. She wishes to refund the money advanced to her late hatband. The new Opera House at Wellington was thrown open for inspection yesterday. The decorations are not so extensive as before, but the seating accommodation is enlarged, and the ventilation improved. The stage is large and lofty as before. The staircases are all of concrete and iron, no wood being used except for lining a portion of the ceilings. The proscenium is all brick and the doors are lined with iron. Wires are laid ready for the electric light, which will probably be used if there is sufficient power available after lighting the town. The building will hold about 1500. The cost of the restoration is £7600 and the work has taken an exceptionally short time—only five months. The Wellington city corporation office was lit by electricity for the first time on Thursday evening with satisfactory results. The representative of Galcher, who is now there, proposes to light a portion of Lambton Ward on Tuesday nightby means of a powerful lamp which has just arrived from London.