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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3538, 17 June 1890, Page 2

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'£' Press Association,),/ ;)/// " : Auokland, June 18. A cable message was sent from Christchurcb to-night on behalf of the Irishmen of Ghristcburcb, cougratulating Mr O'Brien on his.iuarriage;'/;,;;:',....',::;:';"/. 7;""/ ///."/ •

The Bev J. Gibb, agaiuat wiioni proceedings were recently commenced by ; Mr A. 0.; Begg'pn a .charge of heresy, has received letters of sympathy from'the'''officebearers of the church, and also from the members. of/' the various societies connected with tlia cliiiroh. ' ■':.- ;';.' '•• ;' •The oabinen's shelter, about which there has : been so, much, trouble, was Bold to-day for 124; It originally cost £BS. .-./■''- Nabier, June 16. The Kosident Magistrate today gave MrCresswell leave tc appeal in the case Moreton'v Oresßwell, if he paid all costs as offered by him. The Labour Agitation-. ! Ddnedw, June 16. Another batch of .eighteen of the men lately.out on strike were; taken on' at the Shag Point mine to-day. / OuitisxoHUßcn, June 16. At a meeting of the Grocers Assistants' Union to-night, the proposal to join with the .Drapers Assistants' Union was well-.'received. A letter was,,received'Jroni the Masters' . Association, announcing their willingness to close at .6. p.m,including Saturday, if unanimity could be secured.Auckland, June 16. The officers of the Aucklaud Telegraph and Postal eervioe have formed a branch of the New Zealand Postal and Telegraph Society., ' .. Blenheim, June 16. At a meeting of the Postal and Telegraph officers,/ held in Saturday evening, it was unanimously agreed to form a branch of the New Zealand Postal aud Telegraph Officers' Society. • Westoort, June 16.

A branoli' of the Postal and Telegraph Officers' Society has been formed for. WesH orfc and diskiot. Bishop J-il'UB on Educate n Curistchurch, June.lfi, Biabop Julius was installed warden of Christ's College to-day by Bishop Harper, who, in his address, said.be had held that office 33 yean, daring which at least 1500 toys had been in the College, including four of his sons and 25 of his grandsons. Bishop Julias, in his address expressed regret that the principles of religious education on which Christ's,. College was founded did not prevail more widely throughout the Colony, Ho hoped the upper department would in time to come consist not of a few divinity students, with two or three others, but of a large mass of men, training for' all professions—ani.ong them the noblest profession of all. Hung to the-Banisters. Napier, Juno 16, ' A' mail named Charles Higgins, licensee of the Crown Hotel at Norsowood, to-day attempted suicide by hanging himself by a swordbelt to the banisters. He was discovered before life was extinct, but lies in a 1 precarious condition.''' '