TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1409, 4 June 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own corrbspondknt. ) Wellington, 31. j Wilherfbrce V. Try Acain Gold- i m«*k'g Company.— |!ti delivering judg- j ntent in this caee their -honors, ' before whom U — was argued, agreed with the -leaipod judge in the court lielnw, that all' turned on the question whether the forfeiture of shftrps under the 54th section of *• The Mining Companies Act. 1874," was or was not optional with the company, and the question whether the language of the statute was not to be construed ! literally. The court held that,. the appellant was not liable to the calls made after the forfeiture had taken place, and judgment should be for appellant with costs in this court and the court below. Auckland, 2. A man named William Mullin Douglas, committed suicide, at Heleiisville, by taking, strychnine. He had : been discharged by his employers for : Tieglectiug his duty through drink on ' Thursday last j Two bcwtaiul memorial stained ! glass windows, imported from England, j have been placed in St. Sepulchre Church,' in memory of Bishops Selwyn and Patterson. Dcnkmn, 2. Mr Cavanagh is at present in Dun('(vi.'i, for the purpose- of initiating a

direct trade between the Colonies and India, A large meeting of the unemployed was gathered at Cargill's monument, 200 and twenty-five signed their names to a document, ..and gave par- ! ticujjars whether^hey wAre tnarYied or •-single, tnVnuniW of children in their ; families, and how long they had been out of work. The longest any of them had been unemployed was 6 months, and the average time during which men had been out of work was seven weeks. At the annual meeting of the Wai-uu-iji Plain Railway Company to-day | Mr Lamacli expresHed his intention to j assist in hating the District Railways I Act repealed, as it had proved a mis I take. > Mr Green received a vote of thanks jat Waikonite last night. Ho was sub- ' jected to n, great .deal of noisy inter•j ruption during the explanation of his ■ action ou the Land Board. He will •; support the Government as against tie 4 present Opposition, and is opposed to » a dissoluciOJij^ I Wvirb. 'Brow^i received* a Vote of confidence at Waipora. 3. The unemployed have again waited on the Mayor, who said he would endeavour to persuade the Government to give these men five shillings a day. Westport, 2. j At the Magistrate's Oomt to-day ' Hugh Jonps, late manager of the Great ( Reputilit- Gold Mining Company, was j committed for trial for the embezzle- ! mentof £41 11s 6d, and divers other j sums, the property of the company. ; The^e : are three other charges- yet to be -heard. . Ths totat deficiency amounts to a considerable sum. A coal miner named Thomas Henderson has been accidentally killed at the. Westport Company's mine. He was putting a prop in and loosened a large stone, which fell on Mb stomach. It took four men to remove the stone, j He subsequently died in the Hospital. Christchuhch, 3. It is probable that Mr Wason may retire from Ashburton to make way | for Sir Julius Yogel. A large requisition is ready to ask him to do so. If Yogel is beaten at Ashburton, Mr Pilliett still holds the Stan move vacancy at his disposal.