LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 342, 17 December 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(per press agency,)

WELLINGTON.

Monday. PARLIAMENTARY. The House met at 2.30. Bills reporte from the Upper House with amenc ments -Working Men's Club Sites, am Thames Harbor Board. Amendment agreed to.

I On the third reading of the Property | Tax Bill a division was called for—ayes, 32; noes 22. Division list :-Ayes, Atkinson, Bain, Beetham, Bryce, Driver, Gibbs, Hall, Hirst, Hurst, Hursthouse, Ireland, Kelly, Mason, Masters, McDonald, G.' M'Lean, Murray, Oliver, Pitt, Reeves, Richmond, Richardson, Rolleston, Saun-

Iders, Seymour, Shanks, Studholme, Trimble, Wakefield, Whifcaker, Whyte' Wright-floes: Barron, Bunny, Colbeck,' Db Lautour, Piaher, J. B, Fisher, J. T. George, Grey, Harris, Hutchison, Lundon, Macandrew, Montgomery, Keid, Seddon, Sheehan, Shepherd, Shrimski, Thompson, Tole, Turnbull, Wallis. Amendments by the Council in the Land Act were considered, several of which were agreed to, and a committee appointed to draw up reasons for dissenting with others.

The Special Powers and Contracts Bil was further considered in Committee am passed.

The following Bills were committed, read a third time and passed :—Electoral Acts Eepeal Bill, No 1; Otago Koads Ordinance 1871 Amendment Bill; Harbors Act Amendment Bill.

After disposing of the Property Tax Bill last night the Houbo went on with the Estimates, and sat till half-past 3, Item £BOO for Thames Orphanage Building Eund was struck out. The Supplementary Estimates have yet to pass. The House meets again to-day at 2,30. It is not expected all the business yet to be transacted will be finished to-day.

The Council met at 11, but immediately adjourned till i this afternoon.

The inquiry into the charge made against Lieut. Leahy, Naval Brigade officer, is concluded. The testimony has been forwarded to the Governor, who will take what action he thinks proper.

At the Bankruptcy Court to-day in the cases of Charles Moody and John Smith final discharges were granted. No o'ne appearing in J. N. Owen's case, it was struck out ef the list.

Jas. Eeilly, Thoi. Clark, and Patrick J Farrelly were charged with assaulting the guard, driver, and another man while passengers on a train from Wellington to the Lower Hutt. It appeared the accused were second-class passengers but rode in a first-class carriage, and on refusing to pay the difference the guard locked them up in the carriage. This and some remark of the guard referring to Farrelly's sister, led to a row upon arrival at the Hutt. The Bench fined Farrelly £5 or a month in gaol, and the others £2 each or a fortnight.

DUNEDIN. Monday. A lad named Stenhouse had his leg amputated by a waggon passing over it on the reclamation works, WANGANUI, - ; " Monday. The train from Foxton on Saturday morning, conveying a number of visitors to the circus, got stuck about the middle | loftheWanraehuhill. The ougine had [ to detach with three»waggons, run on to j Baker's Orosemg, and then return for the rest of the passengers. | NEW PLYMOUTH. Monday. Drßawson died yesterday of paralysis. He was elected an Associate of King's College, London in 1841, a „d was for many years Provincial Surgeon here. AUCKLAND. Monday, An open-air meeting of the unemployed to urge the employment of men by day labor on the Reclamation Works till the dispute with Dempsey h M been settled, and also to immediately accept 'the Newmarket contract, was to have been held

to-night, but was postponed on account of the weather. By stopping 'the work through the dispute with Dempseya manber of men are out of work, and a thousand tons of loose clay having been thrown into the harbor without any provision is causing the silting up of the Railway Wharf. Great indignation is expressed at the delay in dealing with the matter. There was a very heavy thunderstorm at noon. The lightning struck Major Withers' cottage, and entered the kitchen window, which was open at the time Mrs Withers and servant were in a room. The girl shrieked with alarm as she observed her mistress clothed in lightning, which,however, flashed off into thepasBase without injuring the lady of the house, who felt most alarmed for the safety of her little boy and girl who were m the passage. The electric fluid shot past them, and, checked in its carreer by the front door, ran up the gas-pipe with atremendous noise, and burst through the ceiling of the passage over the front door making its exit through th. roof, having s tran«t exploded the gas-pipe 3 Jehal,pa per onfire,Lßt ratters of the house. The neighbors extinguished the flames "nth Parage, and also on the roof. Mr Kv: P 7S veryspiriw^^^