TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3452, 6 March 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Dunedin, Maroh 5.;: '■ A man named Denis"'. Daleyi -was' killed between Dunbaoli and Macraes by falling off a dray he was driving. one of the wheels passing over'him'i :. At the City Council mooting' the engineer reported ' that there was only equal to about 19. days' watei' BuppljTin tho reservoir. It was decided,.if, necessary, to take the Water pt Leith for the lower levels. Tho. Town Clerk, Mr Gibson, was granted six months h>av'o of absence on full pay. A case was v brought in the Resident Magistrate's- Court to-day, by Stone'-and Co, to recover £lO 10s, paid as Customs duty under protest, in respect of; book covers importer, The covers werecharged as.stationery, and for tho defence it was 'contende ; i that they' ~veio not correctly bo termed. Thoßesident Magistrate took time to consider. William Holmes, who fell off she express train' near Waikouaiti on tho 20th of last month, has died in the; hospital, Ho 'hadl undergone >k oporutioriof amputation of one leg, GiMSTOuoRCH, March f»,

■ A man, named Henry Kirkland, employed as a driver by A. W. Rutherford, was killed at Oulverden yesterday by the upsetting of a dray. '.-..• .Nelson, Maroh 6V

Tho Supreme Court session opened to-day, before Mr Justice Richmond. Only three persons, wore charged with "offences, and true bills v/ere found against Alexander Lawnkce for stealing from an ,hotol, : ana he was subsequently sentenced to a year, A true bill was found against"" Henry J, Goss for the manslaughter of his wife, but no bill against Mrs Minnie Sutton, who was charged by Goorgo Harper with stealing a considerable Sum from hinv The breach of promise caso, Mills v Hyams, of Wellington, comes on on Friday, ' At/cKWxb, March 5.

A nun named Swiney was sentenced to 12 days imprisonment with hard labour to-day for having wounded a-dog by striking it repoß-teclly-with a A document has been signed by 12 master'bakers stating that they offer no objection to: tho men in thoir employ working undor the rules of the Bakor's Union, Tho rules provide for ton hours a clay on six days a week. The recent decision of Mr Justice Conolly, quashing Te Kooti's conviction at Opotiki, had given such a satisfaction to the Natives at Kihildhi that Mr Napier (solicitor. for Te Kooti), when ho visited Kihikihi yesterday, was welcomed by a largo body of Maoris, who danced a haka, whilst tho chiefs congratulated him, Inquiries have been received from all parts of tho Colony respecting the direct trade with Natal, established by a local firm of shipping agents and the barquentine Stanley has.been chartered to kvo Auoldand for South' Africa in about three weeks, A well known chief of the Ngatipaoa tribe, Wiremu Eepa, dropped dead a few days ago at his house at Waikeko Island,

A friend in Auckland, of Mr W. S. Allen states that the assertion that that gentleman is a coming candidate for Stoko-upon.Trent is not correct. He has thrico positively declined to re-enter English politics. Great damage is being oaused in the Waihato by tho bush (ires. Largo quantities of flax and timber have been destroyed, and .several sheep belonging to tlie Waikato Land Association' were also burnt.' The Thames" .Borough ; Council have decidedlo accept .£650 in settlement of'their claim against the Victorian Insurances Co., as guarantors for F.O.Doau. ,

The Sweating Commission.

Chkistciiurcii, March 4,

At the Sweating Commission this evening two female shop assistants gave evidence, and complained of having to stand from 9 a.m. to G p.m. with an hour's interval for lunch, and on Saturdays from 9 a,m. to 0 p.m,, with only forty minutes interval, They stated that then' health was seriously affected by the long standing, and tliey knew of girls who had suffered from anosmia q~' bloodlessness inconsequence; They had not'eombiued to make representations to their employers on- the subject, Mr Fulton suggested that the ladies of Christchurch should take the matter'up,