NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 250, 27 February 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PEE PBESB AgSOCrATIOK.) StratFohd, February 26. Yesterday Archbishop Redwood laid the foundation stone of a new Roman Catholic Church, which is to cost £1000. Seiioua bush fires sprang up all over the district on Saturday. Several houses ) n nd & large number of sh<ds, fences and hajstacks were burned. A ropetition of the .great fire of 1886 was only prevented by the rain which fell on Saturday night. New Plymouth February 26. Herbert ascended Mt. Kgnv>nt yesterday from the Mountain House to top, got a card placed there and returned, doing the distance of 4000 ft in one hour fifty minutes and four seconds The wncera on hts not doiug it were all but < ne with* drawn. CuiUsTCHunCH FebruarT 26 The Host ital Board to-day decided that (he tower of the .*< urges' Home, shortly to be built, should be called " Gothic tower " in recognition of the t-übatantial addition to the funds through the do nation of admission fees on tho occasion of the steamer Gothic being opeued t<> public inspection. Wellington, February 26. The inquiry into the stiandmg of the Jessie Headman at Chatham Inlands re suited iv the master's certificate being returned, but he had to jay tho costs of (he inquiry. Mr J. .1. Freetb, for many years clerk of the Maeistrutf's Court at Masterton, but now stationed a New Plymouth, is to retire from the seivu-e on pension. Dcnkdin. February 26 Tbore iireeU've i jersons awaiting trial ut the rim i art 1 citings on Monday next, incluriiufr achmgeof murder aguinst Kufncr and Dobson. Hip Department of Agriculture has issued a circular intimating that hides from Australia are to be imported without restriction Napier, February 26 Mr W L. Hnuwoll, general dealer dis appeared in December last, and it was geiter&il} * elievvti he had left the district, but yesterday a Maori fouud his bod> in the U jroon near l'etane .tn open yer die was returned. Dr Hitchinpa. one of the oldpst resi .louts of Uawke's Hay, died to njght.a-.~ed 78 He w>is in active practice till the last, though latterly be suffered much from mrti'mn 8. Other Fire Brigade? have entered for the competition next mouth About 60 brigades will be represented by 250 meu. Auckland, February 26 Colonel Pnt Boyle, late private secre 'ary to Lord Glasgow, left to-dnj for Wellington to join the Gothic for Enjr- ■ nd. i^apiai • Mliot f his successor, is ex pec'<d be:e by Thursday • Sydney steamer The reported murder of Rowe, on old Thnmenite, by Thursday Island natives, is confiimed by letters just received by bi« brother. ; A wcim<n had her pocket picked in a crowd soomg the Mararoa off. Tho thief escaped. Mastketon, February 20 Fierce fires raged in the neighbourhood of Eketahuna on Saturdajralarge quantity of grass and fencing btTOg do>trojed, also some bush camps. The town was in some danger, but heavy rain sot in at night etopping the progress of the fire. WfLLIXGTON. Thii Day. There are seventeen cases on the criminal calendar including iiifauticidc, and five of attempted suicide. The gale lias now abated, but a heavy sea is still ruuuing at the heads and several small steamers have not yet put iv an appearance. Nelson, This Da? The Timaru dredge, Capt. Kennedy, from Newcastle, put in here this morning owing to stress of weather. She is short of coal.