Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3265, 25 July 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

A f ellmongeiv Burni: : ; Wellington, 'Thursdays: '• Eckley and Tmnbnll's fellmongery at Ngahnuranga was burned down last night, Fire is supposed to have been caused by tramps.

The Milkman and Marchioness.

Wellington, Thursday. , A milkman named Tarr has been summoned for furious driving, He nearly knocked Lady Onslow down while she was walking on tho Karori road,

Election Irregularities. Chiustchurch, July.24, Tho Mswoll Eoad Boird election held recently, was to-day attempted to bo upset, on the grounds' that one candidate was only manager of an estate and not a ratepayer; that one nomination was irregular; that the voting papers wero informal, through not coiitainiug the mimes in full; that the word " honourable" should not be placed against Ernest Gray's name. Mr Beethain;: dismissed tho case, hesitating to interfere exeopt on very serious grounds, and tho election had not depended on these slight irregularities.' Twelve young men, sons ofrospectable farmers, were finod LI each fur throwing flour at the returning officer at the above olection,

Auckland Items- • Auckland, July 24, Intelligence {has been received of tho wreck of the Auckland cutler Lancashire Lass on July 11 at Pago Pago, Tutuila, The vessel rati upon the reofs at the entrance of Pago Pago Harbour, She was owned by Mr D. Goldie, who holds a policy of £2OO in the South British office on the hull. Amongst the freight of the Wainui from Tonga were 198G silver dollars. These are Olriliau coinage, and are being sent to Sydney, the Tonga Government having decided to introduce English currency, A curious incident occured at a meeting of the Auckland City Schools Committee last night, Mr floutj tho secretary of the Scripture Gift Association, forwarded. two books, " The Life of Bishop Patterson," for tho Wellesley Street' School Library. An erasure had been made in ink m one volume, the word erased being " absolution," in the following sentnnce:-" He was only six years old when he told his mother that of nil things he would like to be a clergyman and when pressed for his reason he said ho longed to say the absolution because it would make people so happy." Hr Kont had struck out the word absolution and written in '" see Mark ii., 7th verse," which says, " Who can forgive sins but God only ?" The Committee declined to accept the, hooks thas altered. Fifty carcases of venison have been received this week from Matutapu Idand. Six of them have been sent Sydnoy, and the remainder are to be 'forwarded to London, A human skull, believed to be that of e Maori, was found in a house in Alexandra-street to-day. It was wrapped in a newspaper bearing a date 1880, and was discovered in a recess over the doorway. The occupant was so frightened that she left tho premises and took .up 'her residence elsewhere.

An alleged case of boycotting has arisen amongst the shipwrights in {his city, Four men who had concluded work on a vesssel applied to Mr Bailey for employment in repairing a barqueutine which is iu dock, Their requests grimed, but when they started tho other .men employed on tho work, 25 in number, threw down their tools, contending that it was unfair to allow men who had finished a good job to come and take bread out of the mouths of men who bad been for many out weeks unemployed, Mr Bailey had no option hut to discharge the three men, as he is bound to have the repairs finished within a specified time, The others then resumed work