NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 215, 16 January 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PEB ".PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunei>in. Jiinuary 15. Henry Corbett. 10 jears of age, was drowned at Blue Spur on Suuday while bathing. His companions became fright" ened, and said nothing about it for some time. ' Bishop Neville and the Rev. A. It. Fit- i cbett, are to attend the Church Congress in Ho'oart on the 22nd. The Agricultural and Pastoral Associu tion received 10-day two handsome silver shields of the value of about 50gs, each, which are to be offered as prizes fcr the best-managed farms Gisbohne, January 15 Ad old man named Micdael Shannon was picked up dead in the street this evening. The; cause of doath has not been ascertained Mrs Drien who was severely burned about the head in the fire wh ch destroyed the Hoyal Hotel on Thursduy nij;ht, has died from the >hock to her s j stem. Trooper Watson, one of Captain Wilson's dotatchment destrojed by the Mata.. belle, was a brother of Miss J. Blake of Gisborno. Auckland, January 15 The 220 jnrds Swimming Champion ship of I"Jew Zealand come off to day in tho Calliope Dock, under the buspices of thej New Zealand Amateur JSwimmiug Association. Eleven started. Gormley.of New South Wales, had all the best of the start, and led throughout, winning easy in 2min, 53 2 othsecs Some sailors of the French flagship Duguay Trouin have been sent to the Hospital, suflWing from typhoid feyer. On tho passage of the Rotomabann from Sydney, the Blind Musical Student Compauy, from Ormond Hall «f Music, gavo a concert for the Aleit fuud Tho proceeds, with the subscriptions of the officers and crew, were £12 16s. Through two concerts on the Tasmania, t'aptain McGoe lopes to forward £30 to the fund Chbistchubch, January 15. At I be inquest on the man Kelly, killed at theHororata races, a verdict of accidental death was returned. No blame was attached to anyone. A preliminary meeting was held to* night to make arrannmeu's for a memorial to the lato Bishop Harper Three hundred and eight applications have been received for 24 sections of first class larid on tho Cheviot es ato, and 73 applications for !8 sections of second class lund. The ballot takes place ou Wednes dav. Wi lllngtox, This Day, On the charge of a breach of the Factory Act against Mr Morrison, tailor, the R.M. upheld the contention that the girls employed ou piece work did not come under the scope of the Act aud dismissed the information. Napikb, This Day. A married woman, Kliza Johnson, residing at Taradale, died suddenly this morning. Her husband left home for a short while, and on returning found hits wife dead. She had complained lately of pains in her Ucad.