NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 281, 6 April 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PKB PEE9f> ASSOCIATION.) CiiRiSTCHURcn, April 5 The Doric sailed for London to-day with a full cargo and good list of -passen* gers. Dunebin, April 5. A case ot sly- grog selling is to be heard at Balolutha next week in which defend ant is »aid to be a leading Good Templar and Prohibitionist. Wellington, April 5. Mr Edward Tregear is gazetted Secrearj and Mr Jas. Mackay Chief Clerk of the Department of Labour. The conditions under which the bonus of £1750 is offered for an improved machine or process for dressing Now Zealand flux and the bonus of £250 for a process of utilising the waste products of flax, arc published in to-night's Gazette. Nbw Pltmouth, April 5, There was a large concourse of people in the recreation grounds to day to witness the ascent in the balloon by Miss Leila Adair. They were disappointed, as the balloon caught fire during the process of inflation, and was burnt to atoms. Miss Adair apologised for the disappoint* ment ocoassioned. and hoped the people would not think it was doDe on purpose. It is stated she have another balloon constructed and make the ascent in about a fortnight. Timabu, Aprils. At- the races to day, Poolp, who was nding his horse Rebel in the Hurdle Race, had a terrible fall at the last hurdle, and still lies unconscious, suffering from con* cusaioa of the brain. .The doctors state that h» has shown a alight improvement but the case is still serious, Wellington, This Day. ■Wellington's first innings closed for 132. Hawke'a Bay put together 101, and in their secoud innings Wolliugtou have lost 6 wickets for 84.