NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 214, 15 January 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PKB PBESB ASSOCIATION.) CHKisTcntTßcrr, January 14 An elderly man named James Breeze died suddenly at Taitapu on Friday nij?ht. Within the past month no fewer than twenty -seven persons have been committed to the Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum from Chnstchurch and surrounding dis tricts. Mr R- Moor©, late M.H R. forlvaiapoi, was entertained at a complimentary social on Friday night and presented with a purse of 124 sjvs. Sir John Hall was preseut. A man named Joseph Simpson Fijrg, who had been remanded from the Police Court to the Hospital for medical treatment, died there. At the inquest yesterday afternoon a verdict of death frnm pneumonia and failure of the heart's action caused by alcoholism, was returned. This Day. John Aldred, Venerable Minister of the Wesleyan Church, died yesterday, aged 76. He came out to the colony iv 1839. Wellington, January 13. The crime statistics for tho past year show the total number of persons tvppve* hended was 1727 as against 1253 in 1892 The Secretary to the Postal Department states that the delegate* to the Postal Conference leave Melbourne for New Zeaon tbe 17th February, not 17th inst, as mentioned m the cables. The Minister of Justice arrived from Auckland last night. Mr Valentine, the new dairy expert, will visit tho West Coast of the North Island next week. The Equitable Building and Investment Company, of Wellington, doclare a further divideud of 5 per cent making 9 per cent for the jear. The exact increase of the valmtion of the City property for 1894-5 is £18,029, the figures being 1893-4, £322,759. and for 1894 5, £340,785. The new houses erected since the previous valuation were 233, ThejCity valuer reports the number of empty houses as very small. New Plymouth, This Day During the past four weeks 206 tons of butter have been shipped from the breakwater en route for England. Nearly a hundred visitors are camping about half way up Mount Egniont. The Primitive Methodist Conference concludes on Wednesday. The Ministers have met with a cordial reception here. This Day. There has been very hot weather for the last ten days. The thermometer twice reached 80. WOODVILI.E, This Day. An old settler named J. Barratt was seriously injured on Saturday night by riding into a spring trap, and still lies in an unconscious state.