NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 252, 1 March 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

~»_ . (PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, February 28 The cop© ngninet John King under the Corrupt Practices Act in connection with the Cad m ii n» Keep election in Auckland in August last came up again. King was brought up at the Police i ourt to-day and remanded uotil Monday. Mr W. E Massey'd friends have presented bim with an address and a purse of sovereigns in recognition of the fight be made in the recent contest for Frauk» tin seat. A large native meeting is to be held near Ngnruawabia to discuss the action of the Government in taking a road through the Apuataia block against the wishes of the owuer Lyttklton, February 28. The licensee of the Canterbury Hotel pleaded guilty to having 332 uncustomed ciijars in bis possession on February sth nnd was fi ad £50 and costs Wellington, February 28. The confnence of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society is fixed for Wellington in May. R J. Lindsay, compositor, one of the petitioners against Sir Robert Stout, has is f ued a writ for libel, claiming £600 from the N.Z Times. Lindsay wa9 a compositor in the Times office, and the a Urged libel is understood to be a para* graph in the paper referring to the circumstances under which he was dismissed The police have received information that a miner, William Carr, was accidentally killed by a fall of earth at CuL lensyille yesterday. Catherine Lane, a child of five, fell on its head in the playground at St Josephs' orphanage, and died shortly after. Paljieeston JVomth. February 28 The Premier and party continued tueir journey at 5 30 p.m.. and will arrive at Obingaiti at 10 o'clock to-night. A horse straying on the line was cut to pieces by the tram just after it left Palmerfcton. In VErcahgill, February 23. At to-day's meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, resolutions were passed with regard to raising the age of consent, and requesting the various branches in New Zealand to offer prayer at each meeting for their representatives in Parliament. CußisTCiiuitcii February 20 v At a moderately »at tended public meet* lug to-night, the Mayor presiding, a motion was carried in favour of the establishment by the State of homes for inebriate.*, to which, under due safeguards, confirmed druukardU shall be committed for long periods, and subject to such treat ment as has been found efficacious elsewhere. Bishop Juhus arid Motsrs G. J. Smith, and G. W. Russell, M.H.fi.'ewere among the speaker?.