TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2899, 15 May 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Napier, May 14,

The whole of the Hawkes Bay Herald establishment is now lighted by the electric light. The peculiarity of the installation is that the light is supplied from accumulators which are charged in the ordinary day working hours by the gas engines used to work the printing machinery, The light given off is absolutely steady and beautifully brilliant, yet soft. The storage system overcomes the old objection to gas engines as generators of electricity for lighting, as irregularity in charging does not mate. The first cost is greater, but there is a greater economy in the working, as a special attendant at night is dispensed with, and to a largo extent the power now wasted in the daytime can be utilised. Ashcroft and Co., of Wellington, have put in the installation,

Gilbert and Sullivan's Pinafore.

A nice little Bill

Wellington, Tuesday.

In Chambers this morning, Mr Justice Williams, 011 the application of Mr Treadwell, grunted an interim injunction restraining the Perman Pinafore Company, now playing on the West Coast, from performing Pinafore without a license from Gillon, the ageni of the proprietors of the copyright. A writ, claiming £l5O damages for past performances, has been issued at Gilbert and Sullivan's suit,

Rich Dividends Galore.

Warm reception for"J. C.8."

Dumdin, Tuesday.

A gold-mining claim at Eoxburg returns a dividend of ,£9O per man for three weeks work. Mr J, C. Brown M.11.E, had rather a stormy meeting at Lawrence, but received a vote of confidence by a sub. stantial majority. There was a warm exchange of personalities.

Municipal Economy.

Auckland, Tuesday,

'Die Katepayers'jAssociation recora. mentis a reduction in the Corporation officials and salsries amounting to over ,£ISOO yearly, and includes the abolition of the OifcyEugineer'sDepartmeut, the Waterworks Engineer, and the City Surveyor,

Sir George Grey on "Clwik' phobia,"

Auckland, Tuesday,

Sir George. Grey addresses ameel ing on the Ohiuese question to-nis;li

An Errant Bank Cleric.

Oajjaku, Tuesday,

Jpies Skinner Gordon, formerly a hank glgrk oil the West Coast, was today committed for trial for the forgery of a cheque for £l2. Accused had been previously sentenced for passing ralueless cheques hero.