NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 346, 22 June 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

- ■♦ (PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.) Pahiatua, June 21. A young man named George Young, working on; Piper Bros., stntiou at Makairo, noar Pahiatua, is believed to have been drowned. He left the station yesterdaj morning to come to town for a doctor. His horse waa found at daylight this morning on the opposite side of the Tiraumea river, which is in high flood; Constable Cooper has gone out to search for the body. Wellington, June 21. The Industrial Association decided to request the Government to appoint a Commission to enquire into the effect of the Customs tariff upon manufacturing industries, and to recommend tuch Variations aa will foster them. The schooner Sovereign, which was beached near Castlepoint on Sunday, is breaking up. Her timber was consigned to Waddle, McLeod and Weir, Wellington. The captain and crew have arrived in town. Captain Smith, of the barque Kinchine which arrived from Liverpool to-day, reports haying passed through immense fields of ice on the passage The first, numbering eight largo bergs, were flighted on 9th May in lat. 44 deg . 37 rain S.« long. 7 deg. 49 mm. £. For a distance of 3,000 miles the vessel sailed in close proximity to those unwelcome neighbours. A week before the Snares were sighted, another iceborg of unusual size wae met with. This Day. Six more informations have been laid against persons who escaped from the gambling saloon when the police raided it recently. Two young men, named Sage and Swanson, were fined £5 and costs for driving three horses which were in an unfit condition to be worked. The case bad been remanded for the appearance of the employer, but he showed lie had no knowledge of the state of the animals. The S.M. made some strong remarks, and said if the matter had been traced to the person really responsible for the ill-usage of tho horses he would have given him a good long term of imprisonment.