TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3534, 12 June 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(United Press Association.)

A Beiaultui? Clerk

CnnisToiibHOH, June 11,

Charles Stewart Gordon, a young | man of 21, was ■ committed. for trip) i to-day on six charges of larceny' as a servant. He was clerk to M. Harris and Sop, financial agent-', at £!) a month, The defalcations amount to ■S/W, «nd extend from July last to thu time of his arrest. He had been gambliug and drinking, and his employers, though warned of this, had not discovered his defalcations before. Political Itema CnitisioHUßOH, June 11. Mr J Joyce M.U.B.for. Lyttelton, addressed hip "cojia'tituejats' to-njght, arid wiis awarded a unanimous vote and confidence,"' AuoKLANp,Junell. Mr Bryce, wbj)e writing Ip'a friend states that lie will not'stand for' an'y electorate in New' Zealand at the' coming elections oxc&pt tho Waikato,

The Railway Voting.

Oajiaeu, June 11,

Tho result of the voting by the local . branch of the' Railway Employes' Jniou on tile question of federation -with the Maritime Council js 188 for and noue against,

The Coal Joiners' Dispute.

Dosedin, June 11,

It is undersjobd that there is now every: prqspept of a satisfactory settlement of the dispute it the Shag Point coalmine ■ through the 'meditatiqi] of Mf'Mijjar, Moratory to ihe MaratimeCouncil,

Hospital Board- . Ohbistohoroii-Juno 11, At the hospital Board to-day, Mr R, Parish, one of tj)o members, strongly protested against a nurse in thejo.spltnl having spoken of tome nfjtientri as paupers, We eoppidewl ihat In a hospital 'supported, by public money, no suoh distinction Bbould be made,

The, Charitable Aid Board have giveii relief in 484 cases during, the past month, The practice of interviewing, applicants for relief has been discontinued. '

. •;Bei^ußAccide i g|. June 11, A man named"John Smart was brought into town tbismorning, in an unconscious state, suffering -from injuries received through being thrown from his horse and dragged by the stirrup, lie was'talfen.to the hospital.

',' V ;. ■'; A hculiar Case- :,.••. .:'■' I)UNEDIN, JlinO 11. \ At the Supremo Court to-day a case was commenced in wbioh Miss Bessie Hume claims £BOO damages from the Taieri and Peninsular Milk Supply Company, Miss Hume was out driving with' some frieuds, when her horses took fright at some milk cans left on the roadside, belonging to the defendants, She was thrown or jumped out of the carriage, and hor injuries have inoapaoiated her frcm work.The case is not coucladed.

Land'-Dummyism. : ■ Items, June 11, The cases of alleged, dummyism at Highlay came up at the Land Board to-day, EangerHugaUj reporting on the petition, suited that he had visitrd the district and touiid that nouenf the sections wo personally occupied. Grilf.'.n became insolent some time t>go, aud ihe lease of bin loild was sold .by tho Official Assignee to Robert Lee, who also gets ihe name of boing a dummy, though the ranger could not say wheiher this was.tfnobruqt He recommends that Clnistina Moßac, who is now married and settled at Mossbitrn, and Donald Moßrain should be culled upon to show cause why their leases should hot be forfeited. The Board decided that nothing could be done for a month or two in Leu's cases, but it Whs decided t call on Mußtin and Christina- MoRaO toßhow ; ciiusc,