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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3705, 8 January 1891, Page 2

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(United Press Association.) Dunedin, January 7. The second man implicated in the sticking up at Kocklauds Station has now been arrested, His name js John William. H§nry fatain, and he was secured by Mounted Constable Griffiths near Gutarn.

The petition protesting against any further appointments to the Legislative Council has up to the present been signed by 8500 persons A similar petition from lnvorcargill, received fay h\v £. S, Fish, AJ.H '.&, faears 1094 signatures,. The City Council adopted to night a report of the i'inanoe Committee, by which all offioers are classified, officials salaries fixed in each case, as well as a maximum salary to whioh each officer can attain, It was decided to confer with members of both Houses as to legislative action in the way of extending cemeteries. Aujo.ng Jitters receivecj one/from, the Moscow, Bussja, addressed to his Excellency the Lord Mayor, Punedin, making enquiry as to the making of the cable tram system. It was deoided to supply the information. The Mayor's salary was fixed at SiOQ, as usual.

A strong effort has been made here to bring about the status quo before the strike sc far as work on the wharves is concerned. Every attempt has been made to induce non-Union men to join the Union, and it is alleged thst mißrepreßentatlon3 of employers' intentions ind other means have been used with a view of caus-. ing dissatisfaction in the ranks of non Unionists, the intention being to do away with free labour and caingel owners to work steamers under Union rules. The Union Company have up to the present made no distinction between Unionists and non-Unionists, though keeping and determining tq keep their pledge with non.-UniQnists. The tactics lately employed have, however, proved so irritating that if continued there is a possibility of the Company discontinuing employing Unionists altogether. Although victorious in thb recent struggle, the Company made no change in their rates of pay or hours of labour. Before taking steps in the direction indicated, and to put a stop to the alleged misrepresentation, the Company are issuing a statement of facts, with printed regulations for the guidance of those in their employ. Chiustchurcu, January 7.

The Canterbury Fruit Growers' Association to-night decided to. carry out experiments, extending over twelve months, to endeavour to ascertain cheap and effective remedies foi the prevention and destruction of apple scale, American blight, and red spider. An orchard of 68 badly infested trees has been placed at their disposal for this purpose. j

C'uristchurch, January 7. About 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon two girls, aged 1G and H, daughters of James Coomb?, of Lmwood, were picking fruit >n the garden of au unoccupied house at No 11, Gloucester street East, when they noticed the head of an infant lying on the ground near some gooseberry bushes close by. There was a piece of clothes lino made - into a noose jjttintd. with blood, and a whtts wool-

lea shawl, also bloodstained. The girls went home but did not tell their parents till 7 p.m. Mrs Coombs, with a Mrs McCracken, went to the garden, and found the head still lying there. They covered it up with the shawl and informed the police. Inspector Pender and Detective O'Connor accompanied them to the spot, but found the head gone from under the shawl. They searched the garden but did not find it. O'Connor resumed the search to-day, and about 5 p.m. discovered tbe head under a thick growth of gooseberry bushes, three or four yards from where the girls had seen it. It was considerably decomposed, and there was a deep cut on the right temple. An iuquest was opened at the police station before R. Beetham, and adjourned for a week. No furtlm facts have since been discovered.

Accidents ana Fatalities, Geeymouth, January 7. The statement that young Morrissey was brought to the hospital and had his arm amputated at the shoulder is untrue. He sustained a compound fracture in two places, one close to the shoulder, but is expected to do well. Wkstport, January 7. Joseph Robert Smailes died suddenly at the Hospital yesterday. Deceased was admitted to the institution on Monday night, suffering from diarrhoea. He leaves a wife, who resides at Brunnerton. An inquest will be held to-morrow. Later. At the inquest held on the body of Smailes, who died suddenly at the hospital, the post mortem showed that deceased died of fatty degeneration of the heart. A verdict was returned accordingly. Smailes was a member of the Denniston band, and will be buried to-morrow with military honours. Cruelty to a HorseGisbokne, January 7. At the Police Court to day John Harvey was charged with cruelly abusing a horse. The evidence showed that the accused brought a two year old colt to town, a distance of five miles, having previously had trouble with it in tbe btockyard, where it knocked itself about considerably. The accused led it by a rope noose, and on the way had trouble in getting it in, as it fell seferal times. When he reached town the animal dropped down, and it was found it had the skin stripped from the under jaw, for about four inches, the rope having also cut in to the bone over tbe nose, and the eye was bunged np and the neck appeared to be dislocated. The horse could not lift its head from the ground, and was suffering such agony that it waa shot. Next morning the police arrested the accused, who told the Court he did not notice the injnrios till he reached town, or he would not have brought the horse in. The Justices, Matthewson and Lucas, considered the charge proved, and inflicted a fine of£l,

Tixaaru Land Sales

Timaru, January 25. Thirteen Alpine runs, gazetted for the past six weeks, were offered at auction here to-day. There were only half a dozen persons present. and seven of the runs were passed in without an offer. Nos 94, 95a, and BirchhjH) were sold to the present tenants, at the up3els ; No 98 was sold to Mr Birsill, a newcomer from the North, for £IGS (£ls above the upset). No. 88 went to the present occupant at £370 (£l2O over the upset), Mr Birsill being his competitor. Sixty-nine applications have been received for 19 patohea of firstclass apd 13 of second-class land; the former being situated on the river-bed, the latter on the east side of the low frontal range. These are yet to be allotted.

MASONIC January T. A joint letter signed by six P.M.'B S.C. Lodges, four E.C, W.M.'s and one I.U. W.M. has been sent to his Excellency Lord Onslow, regarding his letter re establishment of the Grand Lodge for New Zealand. While acknowledging his Excellency's apparent desire to restore peace to the Craft, they say that the question has already been discussed in all its bearings, and nothing has aopurred since the opening of the so-called Qrand Lodge of New Zealand, to alter or effect the decision the representative lodges bad arrived at. Tq re-open the question now would, so far as tbey can judge, be to acknowledge that their lodges were in error, and oause irritition and annoyanoe on a subject on which a comparative unanimity exists in the lodges.