TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1741, 9 August 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(kkom ouk own correspondent.) Auckland. 7. About 500 were present at the meeting of the unemployed this morning. The following resolution was ! proposed in an inflammatory speech, which was loudly applauded : — " That i Government open up works without delay, or we shall have to take some steps for ourselves, which will cause ! trouble at large." Some of the speakers : objected to thi? resolution, which. : however, was carried with a slight j modification. The meeting adjourned till Friday next. | Duxedin, 6. A trolly loaded with dinner, in which a man namt'd Henry Lewis was sitting, was precipitated into the sea at the works at the Heads. Lewis re^ ceived such severe injuries that his recovery is doubtful, A man named Patrick Egan has been killed at Skippers. No evidence is forthcoming to ac« count for the death of John Hancock, whose body was found in Lake Wakatipu. OaptJKing in the ..Mermaid, surveying the northern coast of Australia in 1819, sailed up the Cambridge Gulf, and landed at its head. The scenery is thus described : — " Aliout three miles from the party was the base of a very remarkable quadrangular mass of hills. They ran abruptly from the salt encrusti'd plain in st«'ep slopes, which terminated in high cliffs and precipices of rocky escarpments. Over the grassy incline the cliff protruded at times so as to resemble the ramparts of a fortress, with bastions and counterscaips, and King thought it only wanted a flag at the summit to make the appearance complete. Of course this was a piece of the usual sandstone taUe laud, and its shape is one of the many varieties of form which these monuments of former denudation as* sume as they slowly weather to the atmosphere. It was named Mount Cockbnrn. All around the country appeared most desolate. The grass, which was quite dry, wanted Imt a spark to set the whole country in i tiaraes, and tho sceuw required hut such an addition to make its lurid appearance complete. The soil was a stiff clay, covered with salt, and the only traces of life in this lonely land were the footsteps of some native dogs and the watch fire of the savages in the distance. There was no inducement to remain in such a place, and King tinned his hack upon it as upon a locality on which the curse of God had fallen."