NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 302, 1 May 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(P£B FBESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, April 30. The City Council in reply to a letter from the Public Works Department re the Te Aro goods shed, determined to adhere to the resolution of the Joint Committee with the Harbor Board, opposing the construction ot the shed and demanding compensation if the land is takeu for the purpose. Auckland, April 30 Tbe Hon W. P. Reeves returned from Waiwera to-day. He speaks at the City Hall to morrow night, and at Hamilton Waikato. on Wednesday. The llikurangi Coal Company haye commenced under arrangement with the Hallway Commissioners to ship coal over the Hikurangi~Kamo section of the Whangarei railway to the Auckland market. Professor Egerton and Seager were welcomed to day by tbe University College Council and commeuce their duties at once The students of the College give a conversazione in their honor. The Mayor hes been approached by some parties with a view of establishing a night refuge on lines similar to those of Sydney and Melbourne. The death is announced of Mr Beaney, senr., of the firm of Beaney and Sons, ironfounders and engineers. He had been a resident in the Arch Hill district for some 30 years past. The Government have decided to start co-operative works in the North, aud at the outset work will be found for about forty men. DtTNEDiN. April 30. A private cablegram, reports the death of Captain Gibson, late of the Josaie Bead man. He died on the passnge from Manilla to Singapore in command of a steamship. The Hens J. G. Ward and J. McKenzie will be present at the opening section of the <Jtago Central Railway to-morrow* Mr McKenzie will be entertained at a banquet at Hyde in the evening. Tho difficulty in the way of trustees placing money in the Post Office Sayings Bank was brought under the notice of the Colonial Treasurer to-day by a deputation from the Carpenters' Union. Mr Ward said the arrangement was a safeguard, as tbe man who put tho money in the bank was the only person who could withdraw it. He would submit the matter to the Law Officers, however CHBJ.STCIIORCII, April 30 The Committee of the Board of Governors of tbe Canterbury Col ley • decided to dbv, subject to the approyal of tbe Board, to appoint Mr J. R Charlton, M.R C.V.S., lecturer on veterinary 6cionce at the Lincoln School of Agriculture.