NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 216, 17 January 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

A BOY DROWNED. THE SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS THE REV. S. J. NEILL'S CASE. (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ! Oisborne, January 16. 1 A small boy named Dagg was drowned at Piitutahi this afternoon. He was bathing with some other children in the river, and getting out of his depth was swept away bj tbe current, Auckland, January 16. Fifty lunatics leave in the Hineinoa tonight for Wellington on route for the Porirua asylum. One escaped last night from the asylum, and is still miseing Mr O. R, Wilkins, produce manager and auctioneer for the Loan and Mercantile Company, has been promoted to a similar post for the Ckristchurch branch. Mendhaiu's protest against Gonnley in the 220 yds Swimming Championship was not sustained by the committee of the Auckland Swimming Club At a special meeting of the Auckland Presbytery, enquiry into the alleged charges against the Rev. S. J. Neill was made, and the petitioners heard. As Mr Neill did not appear, the meeting was ad jonrned for a week, so that he may be ci'ed a second time. This morning, at a special sitting of the Supreme Court in Chambers, an application in connection with the petition lodged by Mr Jackson Palmer in the recent Waitemata election case, came before His Honor Mr Justice C'onolly. His Honor ruled that although two Judges would have the power of ordering a discovery, he as one Judge had not that power or jurisdiction. Therefore, he could not make the order asked for by the petitioner, nor yet allow costs. Chhihtchuhch, January 16 This morning a boy named Richard (Japes, twelve jeara of age. jumped off :he Sumner tram while in motion. Tbe wheels of one of the cars passed over his left leg, crushing it so badly that it was found necessary to amputate it at tbe hip. A steady ram set in early this aftornoon, and will be beneficial to root crops, but if it continues, tbe grain must suffer damage The- statistics of crime for the Christ* churcli d: strict fur 1893 show that tbe number of offences reported was 1045, a decrease of 10 on tbo previous year. The persons apprehended numbered 966, a decrease of 35. This Day. The Cheviot mansion and five thousand acres of land were sold to-day to Mr H. D. Bell, on behalf of Mrs Charles Campbell, for the upset price £"25,000. Dr Moorhouse, for failing to furnish the Income Tax Returns was fined £5 i and costs, i Nelson, This Day. A boy named Hawbroke aged 2 years, was burned to death at Takaka yesterday. He was left alone in the house sleeping in his cot. He got hold of matches and set the clothes on fire. Wellington, This Day, Heavy rain has set in. Napikb, January 16. The |thermometer registered 86degs here yesterday, and to-day 90degs in the shade. At Waipawa to-day the 1 thermometer registered 96degs in the shade.