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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4661, 1 March 1894, Page 3

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r Ordinary Meeting, meeting of the Board was held on . Saturday last. Present: Messrs ' Maungell, Bellian, Langdon, and Dalziell, / The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. J. Letters were read I'rom Mr Dunn 10 wages paid to Mr Lawson.—From County Clerk re nature of bridge over VVhakaroro.—From same proach to Tinui Mr John Cross grant of five pounds towjrdjtpening/the'road . line to his setfEion,—Ur Elder re rates paid on ceftain sections. The Clerk of Workßreport was read and considered. Resolved—That repairs to Elder's hill be undertaken at once, and that Mr Elder's permission be obtained for removing the metal off his laad to repair Eldor's Hill Road.—That £2OO be paid to the County Council as part grant of £350 for county roads, ""—That the road from TenulPoßt Offics to the hotel Btables he remot allod.—That £5 be granted to the work applied for by Mr Cross subject to the member for No. 2 sab-division being eatisned with the expenditure. —That Mr McHutchon's offer for the use of the quarry be agreed to in the meantime.—That the Clerk be directed to procure somo culvert timber. Accounts amounting to £2l2d Od .. v were passed for payment. CABLE BREVITIES. _ j Proposal made for the unifcation of the control of London. Boiler explosion in Russia, 25 men killed and 10 wounded. London wool sales opened yesterday, dosing rates at last series main- I tained. Disturbances at Rio continue. U.S.A. threaten to intervene. U.S.A. President disgusted with the continued wrangle over the tariff question. 1000 iijjnds thrown out of employment owing to the destruction of a woollen factory in Durham. Sixteen - inches of rain in 48 hours . at Kimberley, South Africa much I damage and destruction of life and A' property. Wk Maw meeting of Natives and Europeans, at Calcutta,call on tho Governmeat to settle the silver question by about a general agreement all nations. persons are being tried in for strangling and burying alive of the Modica Orphanage. also charged with robbing of funds contributed Hj^H^fAaintenance, thought to have been an by the discharge theatre at Pisa turns merely a harmless acting Agentimpresses on and GovernAustralasian for the and H^Hl^^^H^fl^^Mdvantageu the

The Ohronioie sayatbab Lord Boso< bery will succeed him as Premier. Mr Gladstone announced that next session Scotch measures will be ro forred to a Grand Committee for the purpose of expediting their passage.