TOWN EDITION Special to "Star."

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 96, 26 April 1883, Page 3

TOWN EDITION Special to " Star."

i \}BY ELECTiaC TEWCGKAPH. — COPYBIGHT.] : -' ' beuter's TELEGBAMS. Received April 26, 12.5^ p.m.} London, April 24. In the. House of <" ommons today the Hon Evelyn Ashley stated thafcpapers in .reference, to the annexation 'of New. Guinea would be laid oh the table at the earliest possible date. W. Standford was to-day consecrated • at St. Paul's; Cathedral as Bishop of Tas« mania.; The ceremony was performed by the ' Archbishop ,of Canterbury. The jury in the case of Timothy Kelly ' i the thii-d of the Phoenix Park prisoners hSve been again Unable to agree. „ . New Yobk, April 25. . TJafcer intelligence f rom uSf ew Orleans shows that fully 100 persons have, been killed by a cyclone which recently passed over life' Stafe r of Mississipi. . Intelligence is to hand "showing that a majority of delegates to the Irish Convention about to take pbiee at Philadelphia .ire; opposed to the use of dynamite in, connection with the.lri.sk- agitation. ; (pee united fbess association.) ::''.'' TdtriiANOA, This D••ly• "Ve.sey.;Stewarfc, on the, eye of his de]kr6ure. for England. w.as presented , ' : a' 'handsome testimonial by the residents. He i go ; es" home 'to float the Tauranga Rotorua . Hot Lakes Hail way, capital £2ob;000; and a' frozen meat with a capital of £30,000. -Properties have been entrusted to him; for :sah?j representing 60,000 acres. , . . On Wednesday Monnt. Tongariro was ah immense column, of black smoke more than Has been seen since the great- eruption of 1870. ; • • WEL'jiiVGTONi This, Day. The chairman of the Christchurch Chamber of : Commerce waited on the Colonial Secretary this morning to britfg ' under his notice a resolution passed by the Chamber with respect to the Colonial exhibition to be held at Boston. Should the alterations to Parliament House' be completed in: time, the members will! be called- together for .the first week inJjune.- • '■ ''■'■'■' ' ' ; ''■':'-'■' ' "' :