TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3054, 15 November 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Extensive Irrigation Works<

Tihaiiu, November 15,

At tho Geraldino County Council meeting to-day there was a resolution tassed to carry out irrigation works in Waihi and Orari district. This will complete the system of irrigation initiated by the Counoil some time ago, embracing all the Hat country from the south bank of the Rangitata Eiver to the Washdyke district, three tnilea north of Timaru. Female LabourChristciiurch, November. The local manager of the D.I.C. was to-day lined 40s in the Resident Magistrate's Court for allowing 52 females to work in tho workroom at 25 minutes to 7 p.m. on Novemhcr.2, The Defence was that the shop-walker whoso business it was to see that the hours werekept, ivas ill, and that the girls had come of their own accord from their conscientiousness and anxiety to finish a large quantity of work which the establishment had on band.

N.Z. Minerals at the Exhibition. Wellington, Thursday. Mr Gordon, the Inspector of Mines who is now in Melbourne, has been instructed to have a quantity of quartz which the .Government are 'exhibiting, crushed 'before the'close of . the Exhibition, and make the result' piMc. Tho Minister of Mines is favorable to about ten tons of stone being selected from tho various mines in the, Colony being sent'to the' Paris Exhibition, and a portion crushed, care boing taken that the stuff from the several mines is treated separately.

Charitable Aid Reform-

Dunedin, Thursday,

. The Committee on Charitable Aid lleform report enquiries gave no evidence of the serious abuses indicated by Dr McGregor, On the contrary tliey assert the management, of the Benevolent institution by- the Charitable Aid Board is excellent, They call attention to. the necessity of: tho Legislature taking steps to check pauperimmigration,and of cooperation among those who admiuister benevolence to pravont overlapping of relief and check • professional mendicancy. ■

Why Convict a Baronet P

Auckland, Thursday,

■ Tlio Government ; li'aving asked Justices Collins and King to explain .their action in sentencing Sir Charles Burdett to fourteen days imprisonment for larceny of flowers the Justices relied to-day ' giving the facts of tlio case stating asthe prisoner escaped from tlio man,' it was ileemed right to make an example of him.

The Frozen Meat Trade.

Splendid Returns,

November ,IG,

I|[r H, B. Holder has just received returiißof 474 sheep and 5G quarters of beef, shipped by the lonio through tlio Nortli British and Hawses' Day Freezing Company. The returns show that the sheep averaged ,701b and realized 17a per. hM,net, or 21swith the wool. - Tho, bullocks averaged 7331b and realized eight ■guineas per head net, . r ■ ; ■ ■!' Extensive slaughtering aud cooling works are to bo erected. hero in {eonneotipn lyitii tbo; froxen meat traije.; .

A Child Drowned-

AujjkuNp, Thursday,

• . A 1 five-year-oicl sou of Mr George Cloi'Jf, iVliangapora, Coromandel, wfiilst, oi} t!|g ,!jeagli.. last riighUvas' washed out to sea by the receding'we. The Wy has not yet beet)-recovered. . >

The Benata WillCak : ; . W ISLINGTON, November 11, In tlio llenatu will cose, Mr Haggit continued, Hoj)oinlctV oufTtlmtHlib will 'us stated >jiad' Ijeeti'uiado on' 1 April 12, yob nothing was. ouid by ' any of tlioso present, extraordinary silence being maintained by Airiui Donnelly, Renetu, mid the attesting 'witi'leies,' thoiigh tliel'e was notliilig to be gained .thereby,'.; Although Airini;must have bdeii aware the will was made, she agreed with. Carrol, that they must return that night and urge Eeneta to settlo his affairs. Counsel referred to the f'ict of Airim's statement that she showed the will to her husband' and her lawyer oh her return home, This was contradicted

by McLean,, and uncorroborated by Donnelly. Tho secrecy relative to the making of the will maintained by Airini 'till the next day was extremely suspicious, Commenting on the evi. dence of Archdeacon Williams who asserted Eeneta, before dying said ho bad '"tillered his will l in iavor of Airini, on which evidence the Chief •Justice gave judgment, Mr Haggit said lie would pfove* Archdeacon Williams mistaken, in quoting Eenata's words, In fact Archdeacou Williams drew the inference not so much from Renatu's remarks : as - froirt liis gestures.

Thursday. Mr Haggett ..continued-bis argument in the will 1 case to'-ilay, and stated a number of objections,to the validity of tho second will, the chief being there was no evidence that Renata intended to deprive, Broughton of tin interest in the property; That the will was in Ajrini's own .writ, ing, and in her own favor; that tho attesting witnesses were her friends and Ronata's enemies; .that the testator was in a weak state when he signed the will; that he made a mark

iusteau of signing it; that neither Renatu Airini nor,,her friends said auything about the new will on the day itwas made j that Airinirefused to allow tlielawyer to draw up a legal instrument in place of her- will, and that neither Broughton nor Harehu who were watching saw tho attesting witnesses enter the sick chamber, Council is now quoting authorities. Hospital Charges. Timaiuj, November 14. At a meeting of the Hospital Board to-day it was resolved that the charge for pationts beds per day if prompt payment be made, and 5s if not for some tiaie. Tho daily charge in the hospital has been considered too high, and general protests have been made against it. The Mining Scandal Dunedin, Thursday, Mr Fraser, solicitor, writing to the Times exposes the milling scandal and states that fifty minors, recently employed in this province by a Melbourne Company registered under the no-liability section of tho Victorian Act, upon suspension of operations by the Company, the men were discharged and refused payment of their wages to tho amount of four hundred pounds, The Compauy telegraphed from Melbourne that no funds were available to meet this debt, aud no further calls can be' enforced. The majority of the mon aro absolutely destitute and have families depending on thorn.

Wreck on the Coast. - ' Wellington, Thursday. The survivors of the Lizzie Guy came hack by the Manu.. Tho mate states 'the'-'weather was very thick. He saw land, but the oaptaiu said they were fifteen miles off and in no danger. Shortly afterwards they got among breakers and struck, At daybreak three men took a line off in a boat, which capsized, and tliev swam ashore. The captain refused to leave the vessel, although begged to do so, saying it was safer there. Cook ami another man stayed with him,'but the latter afterwards swam ashore. When the vessel broke tip the captain was seen swimming, but a succession of waves overwhelmed liirn anil nothingjwas seen of him since, Cook's body was recovered aud buried on tlie beach after the inquest.