NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 330, 4 June 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

: « : (FSB PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, June 2 Thirty- two men were taken over to Tittrangi thi« morning for bushfelling and twe've were sent up to tbe railway slip at Mauncoville. Others still continue however, to pour iuto the city. The slip vri'l not be cleared till the end of next week. Tbe Post stntes that the members of (he old Opposition have decided not to appoint ft leader or form an organised party this session. There will therefore be no regular Oppisttiun. Mr Mitcbelson will sit on Mr Uolleston's seat, and Capt. Russell in Sir John Hall s. This Day. The New Zealand delegates who Lave been attending tbe Wesleyan Conference at Adelaide returned by the Botokino, which arrived from Sydney tliis morning. Dr and Mrs Lamb, of the New Hebrides Mission, were also passengers by the vessel. Aucklakd, June 2. Mr G. Tolo has been nominated as a member <>f tbe University Council by the Auckland members of the Legislature vice Mr ID. Hesketh resigned. A balf-capte Maori girl died in the Kins Country, it is supposed from strychnine poisoning. An inquest is to be held. At a meeting of the Fiuance and Legal Committee of the Harbor Board a letter was received asking for a remission of tbe dock due 3 on behalf of tbe mission vessel Southern Cross. It was decided to reply expressing inability to comply with the request on the ground of not being authorised bj law. This Day. A large shop and dwelling on the Manukau road at Parnell, owned by the Presbyterian Orphanaga Trust, and occupied by Mr Wood, a grocer, was burned Mrs Woods escaped from the upper window with a child four years old. She fill from tbe verandah, fracturing her thigh. Tbe child's leg was also broken. Dunepin, June 3. Sergeant Neill, in charge of the Port Chalmers Police Station, died very suddenly to-day from the burst ing of a blood vessel iv the stomach. He was about 60 years of age, and came from Victoria when the Otago Police was first organised in the goldfield days.