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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3788, 17 April 1891, Page 3

VERY LATEST.

(By Telegraph). [Per Press Association.] The Unemployed. Dunedin* Friday. Arrangements have been made for sending about sixty unemployed to work at the Catlina railway. Married men will be gisen the preference. The MM Btrajehu; Weelikgton, Friday. The Ruapehu arrived at Hobart from London yesterday afternoon. The EaSaaul Belief FuadDunedin, Friday. It is underatood that if the Kakanui Relief Fund Committee insist on the adoption of the plan of distribution brought np last ..Friday, application will be made to the Supreme Court to retain the funds on the ground that Mrs Kesa&a sufferer, is left out. Electric Light AockiiAKd, Friday. A movement is on foot to light Auckland city by electricity. A syndicate announce that they propose to apply to the next Parliament for authority to supply electric light to Auckland, Wellington and Christ-. churchV ,/v •, : ''.7*' , Supreme Court. : New Plymouth, Friday. In the Supreme Court, -Jarne3 Salisbury was sentenced to three years' for arson. On a charge of criminally knowing a girl under 14 yearsj he was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, the sentence to begin at the expiration of the former sentence. The grand jury threw out the bill against Mary Ann Tiller for bigamy.

LicwtftasrElectioa. Aacther ProhlUtloa VictoryWahganui, Friday, The licensing election : resulted in the return of tne three candidates put forward by the prohibitionist party, who pledge themselves to close five of the nineteen hotels in the Borough. Destructive Fire. Waifawa, Friday. • The residence of Mr. Williamson, teacher of the public school, Waipawa, was destroyed by fire'at 5 this morning. Nothing wan saved. The inmates, Mr. and Mrs. Williamson; escaped iu their night clothes. The building was old and was the property of the Education Board. "V-The origin of the fire ii unknown. Mr. Williamson loses about £3OO, including - a valuable library, Movements of "Warsiips Auckland, April 16. Arrive! this: afternoon, French warship Champlain, "2100 tons, from Tahiti, fordockingand repairs; The gunboat Goldfinch, Lieut. Brewer} sailed at 10 aim. for Raratonga and-Fiji. -"