NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 338, 13 June 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(FBB FBK9B ASSOCIATION.) Weijcjngton, June 12. Walter Prior was to-day sentenced to four years' hard labor for uttering forged cheques. In the Supreme Court, the case in which G. W. Ell, formerly of Christchurch, sues Jellicoe and Menteatb, solicitors, for £4000 damages for negligence, has been adjourned for six months, owing to the absence of defendants in England. A petition has been presented to the Executive, urging that a portion of the life sentence imposed on Mrs Blake some time ago, for attempted murder of her husband, be remitted. Dr Cahilit reports the young man Storey to be suffering from excessive drinking. l[o was fouud by a friend to whom he bnd telephoned that bis body would be found on the beach. AUCKLAND, Ju«e 12. Lord Glasgow and the Vice-Regal party left by the Hinemoa for Wellington this morning. At a meeting of ratepayers, resolutions were carried against tbe .£32,000 loan, part of which is proposed to go in liquidation of the overdraft, and asking the Council to bring the annual expenditure within the yearly income. The Autumn Conference of the Auckland Fruit-growers' Union was held today, and a large amonnt of important business was transacted relating to production and marketing of fruit. The Board of Education have obtained an overdraft of £'3000 from the Bank of New Zealand, and a Government advance of £1000 has been received. Nafikb, .lune 12. M. Coloti, better known as Long alias Smith, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for circulating obscene type-writton circulars at Waipawa. Haweka, This Pay. The Keitemsrae Hotel, about five miles from II air era was totally destroyed bj fire this morning.