TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 312, 13 December 1873, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(From the Dunedin Dailies. ) Wellington, December 9th. The master painters have consented to a compromise with the journeymen of 11s a day, being an advance of Is on the wages hitherto paid. By this agreement the strike may be now considered really at an end. December 10th. The Independent suggests that steps be taken for holding^y second Colonial Exhibition at Wellington" in 1875. Auckland, December 10th. The Hon. J. Yogel is expected here in the middle of January. In the Presbyterian Assembly to-day there was a very animated discussion on the Rev. Mr. B race's motion for a prescribed form for the Burial and Marriage Services. Several clergymen said it was a step towards Episcopa y, and that in all probability the next action would be the adoption of the Liturgy. The Rev. Mr. Elmslie, of Wanganui, moved the previoiiH question which was carried by 13 against 12 votes. The second Sabbath in May has been appointed for sermons to bepreached against intemperance. A Committee has been appointed to take action to promote temperance.

Here is a curious story of the old slavery times, which we pick up from a Western Carolina newspaper. In the gold mining regions Burke County lived a* industrious, well-to-do free coloured woman, -named Nancy Boyce. She" whs engaged to marry Jack, a slave, and in order to have everything pleasant, she put her hand ia Tier pocket and bought him of his master. But she was shrewd enough to take a bill of sale of him. forlunately, as it happened, for Jack turned out to be utterly worthless, and a perfect sot. But litt ; e need was there for Nancy to go to Courts for relief by diverce. She knew a better way than that She owne/Thor man, and she pimply sold him to a slave-dealer, who carried him off to the far South- West, so that the sharp Xancy was never bothered by him again. Husbands have been Partly sold before, though, not in this particular way. r The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser of September 6th in referring to the arrival of the Magellan Cloud brig from Auckland says: — " An arrival from New Zcalarfi last week, bringing an assorted cargo for this market and an order for a return cargo of sugar, coupled with the intelligence that several cargoes already sent to the Colonies are likely to figure good returns, will have the effect to direct the attention of shippers to that market in preference to San Francisco, where our produce keeps at low figures with ■mall prospect in the future."