NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 265, 16 March 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PKR PBE33 ISSOCrATIOV.I Auckland, March 15. The German warship Bussard sailed to day for Sydnoy. Ono hundred and twenty patients from the lunatic asylum wero given a picuic on the Ellerslio racocoureo to-day. I Kcrci Kaiiiau and his people were j brought up at the Police Court on a I charge of obstructing the police arising : out of tha dispute over tho Opnalia survey. Tho constables doposcd in evidence that Maori women ** rushed them liko wild cats." Wellington, March 15 Chief Justice Sir Jas. Prendorgast has been gnzottcd Acliug«Govemor during the absenco of Lord Glasgow at Rara tonga. Ilis Excellency will bo away from Now Zen land about a month. Sir John Hall left by the Wakatipu f <r Sydney to-day en rou'o to Englind He is merely making a brief business visit to the Old Country, aud expects lo be back again in a few months. BlemiklM. March 15. At the Supremo Court, George Kassa haum, for cattle stealing, wns found not guilty, and Lewis Griffiths, for common assault on a female, was nlso found not gmity. A fire occurred in Maiket Squaro in a shop occupied by Messrs Holdsworth Bros , grocers, which was completely destroyed. The origin isa mj-stery. Ono of tho proprietors had only left a few minutes when smoke was seen issuing in all directions. The stock, valued at £500, was totally- destroyed The insurances aro : — Building. £500 in Phoenix, and stock £200 in the Straits lusurance Com P a ny, _____