NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 339, 14 June 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Westport, June 13. William Lloyd, formerly local agent for the Pubhc Irustee, pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling £22 5s of mone3 r s belonging to the office. He elected to bo dealt with summarily, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. ' Auckland, June 13. Mr J. McKerrow, Chief Ral way Com missioner, after transacting departmental business, leaves for Rotorua to inspeot tho Rotorua railway line A burglary has been committed at the Wesleyen Church, at Onehunga, which has been rifled, it is bolieved, of several pounds The alms boxes at the Catholic Church of the Sacrad Heart, Ponsonby, wert- rifl-'d a few days auo. Wellington, June 13 Not a single tender was received from Wellington for the Mangatainoka bridge north of Eketnhcna, though the work is expected to cost £10,000. Six wero sent in from other towns, but none have been accepted yet. The Press says it is rumoured that heavy reductions will shortly be made in the salaries of many civil servants. j The Minister of Lauds, at the request of Mr Hogg, M.H.R., has agreed to bring in a Bill to enable village settlers to change perpetual leases into leases in perpetuity. At the iuquest into the burning of the Club Hotel, at Featherston, the landlord said when he first saw the fire it was coming from under the building, where a hole had been made duriug the night. He would lose £600 above tbe insurance. Witness said he had some suspicion as to how the tire originated as bo had some enemies and went on to charge a person, whom he named v with having threatened to drive him out in six months. The inqiiett will not be finished till Fridy, Napieb, June 13 Mr H. Napthali, who has been in business here for some years, died suddenly this morning. He went out shooting about uiue o'clock in the morning, returning soon afterwards and shutting himself in a front room where there is a gas stove. About noon a smell of gas was noticed, and when the room was opened Napthali was found dead on the floor, the gas stove being turned full ou, but not lighted, and the damper closed. The post mortem, however, showed that the heart was in a shockingly diseased state and death was due to that, accelerated by inhaliug the gns.