LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 877, 19 September 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

'■' (FROM OUR OTO CORRKSrONDKNT. -; M'H _* . : ' A OURIQUS CASE. DUNEDIN. Aouriouß case ia now being tried in the Resident Magistrate's Court. A shareholder i« the Building Society withdrew, his shares, receiving payment with profits added according to the scale prescribed .by.the rules.- Subsequently it was found the secretary had committed frauds and there wore thus no. prpfits seeming, and defendant it sued for return of excess P»jd. hinvbeyond the actual money de•posited. If the Society succeed in this, action, a number of other former shareholders must also refund. ■ ; •

■eaiiavay employees on strikk, Railway employees in maohine fitting aud blackamith shops threaten to strike, their grievance is that though ten per cent reduotion is nominally removed the permanent reduction of their wages amounts to the same thing, and they hate given formal notice of strike on Saturday next unless wages''"are increased, ' •;.,.-THE SHADOW BEFORE.

New Plpiodth,

.-••Very;disquieting news comes from Parihaka. The natives there are full of sedition, and seem ready for any violence, only awaiting the signal for action.

'SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. j ' '. ■•■'.' Auckland, The San Francisco mail has arrived in nineteen days thirteen and a half hours.

Frehflhmen employed on, tlje Panama Canal are dying rapidly from yellow fever. 1 Accounts from there are deplorable. William Gale, the English pedestrian, has covered 6000 quarter miles in COOO hour's.

A convention of Fenians at Chicago disobyavod thtit their secretary was a paid :spy of the, British Government. .

', The Present draiu of gold in America is likely to pontile, aud a rise in rates is impending. . The harvest prospects in Great Britain are desperately bad. Standing crops are being thrashed out by heavy rain and gram already cue is turning black aud sprouting.

Miss B™MonVj>)je Ooombi the re"owned horse traiiinr and turfite of ICantucky is dead. ~

In asventyrfjre hours walking-match at Buffalo, bleary did 271 miles and Hanimen 267.

Jules Bevaut, Tichborne's missing valet, has' upland verifies tho story of the Californlau claimant, and, can identify him. He .alleges good reasons for remaining perdu while Orton's trial was progressing.