NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 255, 5 March 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wkllingion, March 3. The Government have decided cot to purchase Buchanan s Elstorpe estate, Hawke's Bay, which was offered at £5 per acre. In consequence of the Government offnring a bonus for an improved flax dressing machine, a new stripper is on the way out from America to compete. Tbe customs duty at Auckland for February is L 29.454, making a total, exclusive of some >mall ports, £145 521 or more than £10,000 above the proportion monthly estimate. The beer duty is £1,147, making a total of £4.084. This Day. Judge Richmond, in opening the criminal sessions, referring to the charges of attempted suicide, remarked the difficulty to fix a penalty in these cases. Respecting the charge of infanctide against the girl Price, he thought the penalty should be lessened as the severity of the law usually defeated its own object. CbbistcH-Bcm. March 4. The following entries bave been received for the Saville Polo Sup. to ba played at Wanganui : — Rangitikei Club, two teams ; Warrengate. two trams ; Christchurch, Auckland, Wayerley, and Manawatu, one each Dukedik, March 4. At the Port Chalmers Police Court Ja**. Luke, chief officer of the barque Peru, was charged with wilful disobedience of lawful comma ndf. Defendant, who is older tban the master, was said to act as if he' should be in command He bad been before* ihe Court at Brisbane, and sicce then friction between them had increased Defendant was sentenced to seven days' hard labor, to forfeit eighteen days' pay. and pay £1 los cost?. Tbis Day. A slight improvement in Bishop Moran's health continues. Kempthorne, Prosser Company's balance sheet shows a net profit of £7,090, to which is added last year's balance of £12,a23. A dividend of 7£ absorbs £3285 and £12,852 is carried forward. Napieb, Thia Day. Sir George Grey, who arrived from the Hot Lakes on Friday, left by the express for Wellington to-day. Most of the visiting firemen have arrived for the demonstration. A church parade was held yesterday, and in the afternoon tbe men were taken for a trip int > tbe country. Auckland, Marcb 3. The National Association passed a resolution regretting the result of the Waitemata election enquiry, and the loss of the seat by Mr Monk ; also assuring him of their continued respect and confidence in bis integrity. It sympathises with him in the heavy exponses sustained, and the insinuations levelled at him. J, R. Hooper won the Auckland Ter.nu Championship, beating Gilhos. The scores were 6— 1, 6—l, 6-3. A balloon ascension by Miss Leila Adair at Noith Shore was a fiasco, through h les discovered in tbe balloon. She will attempt tbe ascent on Wednesday. New Plymouth. March 4. A boy, ten years old, named Robinson, met with a fatal accident on Saturday. He was sent by his mother to cut down furze in a paddock. Some time after he was found lying in a ditch with a terrible gash on his head. He was taken to tlie hospital, but died soon after admission.