OUR NEWS LETTER.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 213, 1 September 1893, Page 5

OUR NEWS LETTER.

A requisition is being circulated in Christchurch asking Sir Robert Stout to consent to 3tand for one of the seats in that city. Mr A. J. Cadman is spoken of as a candidate for Marsden at next election, and Mr Buckhurst is mentioned as a probable candidate for the Bay of Islands seat.

The Dunedin Bootmakers’ Union, as also the Knights of Labour in that city have passed resolutions thanking Sir R. Stout, and Messrs Pinkerton, Earnshaw and Hutchison, and condemning the refusal of the Government to allow majorities to rule in Licensing matters. Captain Kern, of the Salvation Army, has been sentenced to one month’simprisonment for cornet playing in the streets of Milton. Indignation meetings have been held in various town*, and it is expected that the Executive will remit the sentence. The unemployed in Chicago broke out in riot! overturned carriages and beat and stored the police. They paraded the fashionable quarter of the city and threatened that unless they were fed, blood would flow in the streets. Mr Henry Hill, of Napier, has been appointed Chief Inspector of Schools under the Auckland Education Board. The Hon. R. Seddon, Premier, said he could not and would not believe that a guxndigger could only make 27s per week. He seems to be in favour of a license fee of 10s on all diggers. A strange ease is proceeding at Pukekohe where Dr and Mrs Dalziel have been charged with cruelly ill-treating their daughter, aged about 20.