NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 290, 17 April 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PER FBEBS ABBOCUTIO.V.I Wkllington, April 16. In the Divorce Court to-day Mr Justice Richmond granted n decree absolute in the case Jessie Berg y. Samuel B»rg A fire broke out in a linen closet on board tho Union Company's stean>6r Poherua this afternoon, but was extinguished by the employes and Harbor Bonrd men before the arrival of 'he brigade The damage was verr alight. This Day. T. W Ivt)8, a journalist, was remanded to Pftl mere ton North on a charge of forging the name of J. L Kirkbride to a cheque for £7. Bail was allowed Dunedin, April 16, At a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and citizens interested, a motion was carried that the channel from the Heads to Port Chalmers should bo kept open to not less than 22 fret at low watf-r, spring tides. A special meeting is to be held to consider the Harbor Board's proposal to raise tho revenue by un advalorem rate. Auckland. April 10. fir Robert Stout addn-Bees the citizens of Auckland to morrow evening, the Mayor prooidmg on the " Aims of Methods of the Liberal Party. Some of ili© fire brigade, and Superintendent Hugh, and Captain Field are suffering from the fumes of sulphuric nci<i in suppressing the fire at Ketnp"thorne and Prooser's drug store. Mr Salmon, of the sal rage corps, is confined to bed and is eenouely ill. Mr Alexander Brodie, the well known fharobroker. Ie dead He arrived here m 1863 in the Royal Engineers. He erected tho mihtarr lelegrnph during the Waikato war. Mr Brodio was well-known on the Thames, where he was Mayor for some years. He was for a long period associated with the mining industry.