NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 217, 18 January 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(FE3 PEE 99 ASSOCIATION.) Nelson, January 17. The Acclimatisation Society has .fixed the deer shooting season opening for the 17th February aDd closing 31st March. Wellington, Jiinuary 17. It is still raining heavily and shows no signs of clearing off. William Farquhar Gray, one of the ' pioneer settlers of the Wairarapa district, died last night. The Directors of the Wellington Gas Company recommend the declaration of a s;} per cent dividend, making 11 per cent for the year. 250 packages of produce from Auckland and 2650 pack;»j,-os from Taranaki were brought by the Tukapuna this morning for transhipment to the s,B. Rimut ka. As tho result ( f an examination by tbo Dairy experts of the butter sent down some prosecutious are likely to take place for fmlure to comply with the law as to branding. Auckland, January 17. The general manager in New Zealand for the New Zetland Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received a cablegram intimating that the full text of the scheme will not be telegraphed to the colony for some days owing to the need for complying with forms required by English Court officials for the issue of notices to shareholders and others interested. The New Zealand Championship Swimming meeting was continued at the Calliope Dock to-day. Results; — New Zealand Championship, 100 yards, Meadham 1, time 69 4-sth sec ; 440 yards Championship, Gormley, 1, time 6min 24 l-sth sec. In the Water Polo Match, New South wales v New Zealand, the former won by 4 goals to nil.