NEW ZEALAND . TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 238, 13 February 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND . TELEGRAMS.

♦- I A NEW GOLDFIELD. | IPKK PBESs ASSOCIATION.) I Wellington, February 12. A proclamation is gazetted further formally proroguing Parliament until the 17th of May. la Cabinet to-day Ministers were engaged chiefly on departmental matters. The representative of New Zealand at tho Commercial Conference in Canada was chosen, but the name will not be divulged until Ins acceptance of the position has been received. The shipping in the harbour to day represented upwards of 40,000 tons, includ mg five steamers— the Gothic, Perthshire, Waikato, and Ruahine— which are four of the largest vessels trading id Australian waters. The Straits cable is repaired, and full communication was restored at 8.30 tonight. Mr J. W. Booth has been elected to represent Wairarapa on the Wellington Harbour Board. Thoso elected to-day to represent the Wellington ratepayers are Messrs J. Jack and J. Petherick. The Hon. J. G. Ward, PostmasterGeneral, left for south this morning to meet the Australian delegates to the Postal Conference, He expects toreturn here at the end of the month. The Government have decided that New Zealand shall be represented at the Canadian Conference. The question raised by the school inspectors as to the publishing of a work on the New Zealand flora has been referred to the Minister of Education to enquire and submit a recommendation to the Cabinet. In order to encourage the paper-mak-ing industry the duty in to be remitted on machinery that cannot be manufactured in the colony. The Kilbirnie (suburban) School Committee and the Education Board have quarrelled about the appointment of a teacher, and the whole of the committee have resigned, on the ground that they can be of no service to the district, and do not wish to expose themselves to further discourtesy from the board. This Day. The Government intend to re-intro-duce tho clause in the Rating Act giving local bodies power to rate on unimprove; 1 values. Philip Wills was fined 50s and costs for allowing a girl to work in a laundry after 1 p.m. on Saturdays. The Premier delivers an address at Foxton, probably on Friday. Auckland, February 12 The Judge's Election Court to day granted Mr Jackson-Palmer an order for payment for costs incurred by him id summoning witnesses. The amount of the costs in about £500. In tho Ditorce Court, in the case Joseph Bush (petitioner) v. Isabel Marj Bush (respondent), a decree uiei was grauted [v the case of Chas. Wm. Banniater (petit ioner) v. Annie Maria Ban* uister (respondent), and Alfred Percy Furbor (co respondent), a decree nisi for dissolution of marriage was granted, without costs. John Booth, alias Considim, alias Guildershire. and alias Thompson, was committed for trial on a charge of burg* lary of the premises of Sargent, jeweller, at Cambridge, and the robberj of goods valued at £32. The annual sitting of the New Zealand Congregational Union commenced to-day in the Beresford street Church. Dunedin, February 12. „ Professor John W Salmond, JVI.A., L.L.8., has been elected a Fellow of the University College. London. An election takes place only once in two years, and only four Fellows are appointed. The honour has been conferred . mainly in recognition of his volumes on jurisprudence and legal history. News from Preservation Inlet states that at tho new rush at Crayfish Island, Bradshaw and party secured 440z in nine days, amongst the returns being a 13£oz nugget, Napieb, This Day. C Johnston, who left the district while on probation without obtaining leave, received 12 months.