TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1087, 15 May 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) Russell, 12. The mate and the chief engineer of the steamship Turaara which arrived yesterday from Hobart, after a passage of eleven days, report that she encouutered a most terrific gale. Dunedin, 12. The trades Labor Council to-night decided to petition Parliament against teaching and employing skilled labor in prison, and to forward same for signature to the various centres of population in the Colony. Auckland, 12. Applications have been made to declare Hargis and Chatwin, the levanters, bankrupt. The Auckland Building and Contractors Association r.fuse to contract for fresh work till the architects withdraw certain objectionable clauses in their conditions of contract. It has been resolved to form Graham's Waiwera Hot .Springs institution into a company. CiiKisTCHURcn, May 12. A portion of Grigg's well known Long Beach Estate, between Ashbur-

ton and Rangitata rivers, was sold this afternoon, realising £21,000, or £12 an acre. New Plymouth, 12. Tawhaio made an harangue to-day, in the course of which he said that surveying, road-making, and gold-pros-pecting in the King country could not be allowed at present. Land-sales also he will not allow. Each of these, he said, must wait. Wellington, 12. The Colonial Treasurer has sent to all local governing bodies in the Colony a circular explaining the purport and working of the two Local Government Bills, which he introduced last session, namely the Crown and Native Lands Rating Bill, aud the Road Construction Bill and putting a series of questions, to which replies are requested, with a view of eliciting the opinions of the bodies interested in the matter as to the proposed measure, So far, the-opinions expressed by the local bodies have been strongly favorable to the scheme proposed by Major Atkinson, the apparent complexity of which, it is alleged, disappears on closer acquaintance, and is not found to exist by bodies engaged in the practice of working local government. Lyell, 13. Richard Shiels, the well-known prospector, was drowned this morning while crossing the Matakitaki, Hampden. The body has been recovered. No further particulars. Greymouth, 13. Mr Weston has arranged with the Railway Department, through Mr Ronayne, to have mails and passengers from Recfton landed at Greymouth at half-past 2. Mitchell consents. Weston leaves here to-morrow for Hokitika and Christchurch,