TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2052, 29 May 1890, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Dr Eitchett, M.H.R., has married a lady whose acquaintance he made on board the steamer on the voyage from London. The Minister of Education has expressed himself in favor of the proposal of the Trades and Labor Council, viz., that there should be uniform instruction books in all the schools of the colony. It is reported that in all probability telegraphists will follow the example of railway employes and insist on getting better wages, Telegraphists now get from £2 to £3 per week. In Christchurch a lad, 12 years of age, named Hugh Miller, was killed by the Perry Road tram. James H. Roberts, brother of the famous Jonathan, has ,been sentenced to 3 years’ penal servitude for false pretences. The Postmaster- General has received a cable message from Mr E, J. Creighton, Ban Francisco, stating that a Bill has been recommended to the United States House of Representatives, under which the Ban Francisco mail service will be subsidised to the extent of about £34,000 per annum. Inglis and Elan’s flax mill, at Hew River, Invercargill, was burned on Tuesday, through the heating of the bearings of the scutcher. The mill was very complete. The loss is £7OO, and there is no insurance. The Farmers’ Arms Hotel at Wyndham, Southland, has been burned dawn. It was of brick, and was occupied by Mr J. Milne. The insurances on the building were in the New Zealand, Phoenix, and National each £SOO, and on the furniture £4oo’. in the New Zealand office.