NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 227, 31 January 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(FKB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, January 30. ! Dr Loslolat do Itachou, French Consul, died this afternoon from malarial fever, i contracted on the West Coast of Africa, ; from the effects of which be had never recovered. Auckland, January 30 : A turtle, weighing 80lb.*, was captured in Auckland harbour by the crew of the ' Taiuui. It is the first eyer caught here. The evidence has concluded iv the Devonport public sohonl inquiry. The Board will consider its decision to-mor row. The Government, despite the protest of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, have determined to abolish the Auckland quarantine station. Christohurch, January 30. A very severe thunderstorm passed over North Canterbury yesterday, the thunder peals being deifening and the reverberation shaking bouses Several trees were struck by lightning, aud a number of windows broken. The current ran along a wire fence, heating the wire and setting fire to gorse. and split several posts. And 10 yards of fencing wire entirely disappeared. A calf was killed by lightning at South brook, and at Rangiora a horse was kuooked down and stunned. At Rangiora the telephone bells kept up a constant ringing during the storm. The hailstorm which followed severely damaged the crops. Dunedin, January 30, The General Committee of the City Council recorntneud, with reference to complaints as to choir-singing in the street, that a bye.law on the subject be drafted and brought into operation.