NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 318, 19 May 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION. I Dunedin, May 18 During the voyage of the Sadie A. Thompson, which has arrived from New York, Peter Kar.len, A.B. fell from aloft on to tbe deck on March 29, and was instantly killed. It is understood Mr Bridger's suicide was induced by business worries. Deceased was to bave sailed ior England shortly. He leaves a widow and a large family. Auckland, May 18. At the next meeting of the City Council a motion will come up : — •' That this Council take into its consideration the advisability of drafting a bvelaw proi hibitiug bookmakers from plying their calling or permitting betting or gambling of anj kind in the domain ground." A Maori named Hori Romeka wax arrested at Kawakawa yesterday on a charge of having stolen 43 fbeep belong ing to Thos. Hanson, of Porerua. He was brought before tbe Kawakawa bench to day and remanded. In the case of David Sterling, charged with wilfully committing perjury at the late criminal session of the Supreme Court, the charge was dismissed. This Day. A man named J. J. Mcßae has been accidentally drowned at Helensville. Wellington, This Day. James. Beard, a settler at Morrison Bush, Wairarapa, who has been missing since 8 a.m. yesterday, has been found dead this morning on the land near his house No particulars have beeu received as to the cause of his death.