TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2913, 1 June 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, May 81

A meeting .of the Auckland Political Financial Reform Association was held yesterday to consider the tariff, when it was resolved that in the opinion of this meeting m view of the present depressed condition of the industries and commercial interests of the Colony, increased taxation is inopportune and calculated to still further prejudice the welfare of tlio people and that reduction in expenditure should be made to balance income and expenditure of the country. Woodyillk, May 81.

A very satisfactory report has been received from l)r Skey on the brown coal discovered here.

A. meeting was held here last night to protest against the Bill now before tlio House to create Pahiatua a County As the proposed .area is only one riding of the present Wairavapa North County it was resolved to petition Parliament against the Bill as detrimental to the country system by making such small counties, and to point put iii the petition that if a new county is to be formed there should be a general one for seventy mile bush. Duniidin, May 81.

At the Police Court to-day a chargo was heard against Dr Waters of evading the stamp duty on tlio transfer of shares, lie left a blank transfer in the hands of a broker for shares, the only writing being the signatures, The name of the purchaser and other particulars wore filled in when the shares were sold. Judgment was reserved, The Manufactures' association have considered the tariff, and intend to forward a number of recommendations to the Government.

A dispute lias arisen in Dunedin between the master-bakers and the workmen, which, if not settled will result in a strike of a serious nature. The dispute arises out of tlio demand of the men for eight hours as a day's work. The workmen are taking steps to warn other workmon to keep away during the dispute. Oajuru, May 31,

A public meeting was held here tonight in connection with tho proposal of the Government to collect a special railway rate from settlers in the Puntroon-Hakateramea railway district, Both the Railway Company, who previously held the line, and the Government, who purchased it, failed to collect- the rate by legal proems, and a special Act is now proposed enabling the Government to collect the rates. When the settlers in the district purchased the lands from tli6 Crown no mention was made of their being liable to a railway rate, and the Government therefore obtained the extreme price for the land, Furthermore, the Company in making tho line did not carry it to the point agreed upon. On these grounds the settlers object to pay the rate, and consider that the special high tariff on the line is sufficient taxation. At the meeting to-night a number of resolutions were passed in opposition to the rate, and these were ordered to be sent to the Gomnmeoti

Woodville, this day,

The Excelsior Lodge, American Order of Oddfellows, was opened here lust night,

Wellington, May. John Pomeroy, alias Collins, has leen arrested for forgery. He is only ust out of gaol; having served a sen;ence at Dunedin for a similar offence. William Smith Fletcher, grocers' assistant, was arrested on a warrant at the Bluff this morning for deserting his wife and child at Wellington.