NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 222, 25 January 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PSB PHES9 *88OC:ATIOV.) VVellia'oton, Janunry 24 The supply of Martini- Henri ammuuh tion in the colony has run out A supply has been shipped from Home, but will not reach New Zealaud until the end of next month Two Romney rams for Mr C Pharazyn, of Wairarapa, arrived by thoßuahine this morning, and are pronounced by exports to to the finest of their kind ever landed in the colony. The vessel also brought two Romnoy Marsh rams and ewes for Mr R. Hunter, of Pulmerston North. Ddnediv, January 24. Auderson's flour- mills at Woodbough were totally destroyed by fire last night. Tlie c.-iuse is unknown. Insurances — South British, £14'X> ; National, £500 A large portion of iho British risk was reinsured. The total loss above the insnranee is roughly estimated at £HTR). Auckland. January 24 The Auckland Public School Inspectors proceed to Wellington on JVlonday to attend the Educational Conference. The fourth case of typhoid was admitted to the hospital to-day from the French warship Dugay Tronin. The Revs T. W. Dunn and Frackleton, two rnenibors of the Presbyterian deputation who arrived from Sydney recently to investigate the special settlement system, have been interviewed by the Crown Lands Commissioner, who gave them every information. They visited the Swanson settlement to-day thence to Te Aroha and the Firewood Creek Settlement. They return to Sydney in three weeks to furnish a report. Wellington, January 24 At the Wairarapa Rifle Meeting Lieut. Kirk, of the Petone Rifle Club, took the prize for the highest aggregate, but tied with A. Ballinger, of Wellington, for the championship. Upon tiring off Kirk won with 17 to 14. A. J. Cameron, of Wairarapa, won the Waimrapa Cup, rifle, and medal. This Day. A man named William Pike, recently from Wellington, cut his throat at Martinborough, Wairarapa, this morning. Haweba, This Day. Iu the Bankruptcy Court, the discharge of Emily Clark, late publican, now of Wellington, was suspended for two years. CnuiSTCiiritcn, January 24. A nairow escape from a .'enous acci dent at the railway crossing near Aldington occurred last night. A woman wheeled a child in a perambulator over the linejmt after the train had passed but another train, which she had not seen struck the perambulator and car.ied it across the cattle pit and then th-ew it clear of the line. The baby was taken to the Hospital, when it was found that it had escaped with a few b-ui eg The mother fainted, but was not iujured. At the R. M. Court today nearly sixty persons were charged with a breach of the new street corner hje law. The cases were adjourned till Mondaj for argumeut as to whether the bye«law is ultra yirep. Tr^French warship Scorff, bound frim Auckland to Dunedin, passed the Lyttlei ton Heads yesterday. The articles found near Auckland therefore were either washed or thrown overboaid.