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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3814, 19 May 1891, Page 2

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Sfcwrsr's Aooommolatloa.

Blenheim, May 16.

The mounted constable who had been making enquiry as to shearer a' accommodation on the large stations returned yesterday. He says he was refused admittance by several large station owners, Shearing being over only a few men are employed at this season of the year, but the best time for judging what is the condition of affairs is when numbers of men are engaged. So far as he could see, the men might easily improve matters by keeping the places clean,

The Drink Traffic Timaru, May 18. A meeting was held to-night in the Assembly Booms to consider the licensing question. The Mayor presided, and the place was crowdad. The following resolutions were passed: —"That the time has come when an effort should be made to rid the community of the evil of the drink traffic; and that the re-eleotion of the present committee will mean a continuation of the evil ; and that those present pledge themselves to support the candidates who will carry out the reform required.

Tuttroulino Experiment i&| AaokAuckland, May 18. The Koch lymph has been administered to an inmate of the Costley Home, a young man named John Burke, 27 years of age, who is suffering from consumption. When Lord Onslow visited the Home, Burke asked him to get the lymph for him. Ths Governor mentioned the subject to the Chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Mr Aitken, who was with him, and as a result of negoJ'V* ooß the tuberculine was administered on Sunday by Mr Davy, assisted by Dr King. As Burka, however, is in the last-stages of consumption, it is considered hopeless to expect any beneficial ejfeot from the ItubewuJiM.

Fearful Wwrthtr, Gisbobne, May 18, The Union Company's steamer Taupo put into the bay at 6.30 this evening, short of provisions and coal It is five days Bince the steamer lefV Auckland for Wellington, and she ha* met with fearful weather, being blown out to sea. She proceeds on to-night if possible. Ball**? Agitation, • Nelson, May 18. A meeting of the Railway League Committee whb held to-night, when it whs resolved to telegraph the following resolution to the Premier, That the Committee of the Nelson Railway League sincerely regret that any hitch should occur to retard the progress of the railway, and trusts that the Government will meet the Company in a fair and rquitable spirit, so thak* the work may be vigorously proee*" outed to a BUcoeßsful termination.

Dduaila Acclimatisation flooktr DoNEDiN,MayIB. At the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society the manager reported that so far no trace of salmon, returning from the sea has been found in Aparima River, where they were liberated. He reported thMMarge number of the fontinalis in 'the pond were effected by a growth on the gills, evidently some disease which had so far baffled all the scientists here. It was deoided to obtain the opinion of I the Commissioner of Fisheries, of the "*' United States, on the disease, which is of a cancerous description.