TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3596, 25 August 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(FEB PRESS ASSOOIAXXON)

■ Auckland, Aupt 22. At the meeting* of. the Auckland Benevolent Society the report showed the receipts for the year to be £l2l and the expenditure £471. There has been a perceptible falling off in the revenue.

The Auckland Law Society held a special meeting to consider' the con-, duct of Mr T. M. Humphreys, solicitor, in conneotion with a bill of costs rendered by him to a client, but tho matter was not proceeded with, as vfi'ote, resigning his position." The Chairman of the iooal School Committee held another meeting to consider tho question of consultution of other committees by the Board of Education with rogard to tbo removal and appointment of teachers, and ut deputation was appointed to wait upon the Board on the subject. The Wainui, which has arrived from her.usual Island trip, brings news that tho Island of Tofua, in the Tonga Group, is again in .a state of active eruption, The Pakuranga Hunt Club have a credit balance of £3O,

The Committee of. the Auokland Amntcnr. Athletio Club, at a meeting to-night/accepted, in the main, all the condition's laid down by the New Zealand Aipatpur Athletic Association nnd Ncw Zealand Cyclists' Alliances for the Championship meeting, though several ffloilipcations wero suggested. They jecoftft'wd tjiat the meeting be held on the oth and 7tl) February, CStfIBtOHUEOH, Au£JU6t 28.

' Shipping companies havo decided to reduce the charge for dumping wool at Lyttelton to Is 6d per bale, and 'to alloy o»e month free storago. " Tisiaku, August 23.

The of goods should not be" bought' from anyone known to be-dealing with Whitcombe. and' Tombs after' the present stock has been consumed. ; •A meeting of the public servants is being" aiffftP|e4 $ Wednesday,

Attomptoa SllloldO.

Oamabu, August 23. . Au old man named Johnson, who | resides at Hoeraki, and who had admitted to the police, after a search had been made on his premises, that ho had stolen several bags-of' oats, attempted to commit suicide., Ho stood on the edge of a waterkolo and singing out to attract attention jumped into the water after ho had been noticed. Ho was dragged out, when it was found that he had tied a bag of stones around his neck.