NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 351, 28 June 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

« (MB FBBBS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, June 27. The Hon. Mr Bee? ea has resigned bis position of Director ef tbe New Zealand Times. Tbe Board of Education has amended the regulations io as to permit the infliction of corporal puoishment on girls by bead teachers. In order to increase tbe postal facilities the Postmaster-General, by way of experiment, has arranged to hare posting boxes fixed to certain cars for letters, newspapers and small packets, but no Valuables must be enclosed. The ordinary lamp-pout receiving box is to be used and painted a conspicuous celour. If the system in a success it will be extended where practicable to other places. Auckland. June 27. At sis o'clock to- night, n fire broke out at Hnzzard'n, gunmaker and fire-works manufacturer, Queen St. While packing fireworks in the upper storey one (jot ac» cidently ignited and the rest exploded in succession. The employees got out the back way. Hnzzard's bead was scorched by the flame. It is estimated the d&mago done by fire and water is LSOO. The stock is valued at LIOOO. The insurance is, Boyai, L 25 0; North German, L4OO CnsisTCHCßCff, June 27. At the Pclico Court to«day, a shopkeeper named Adolph . Schlesinger, wus fined 59 and costs for selling a copy of the New York National Police Gazette containing printed matter of an indecent nature. H. Saundera, hotelkeeper, for having rold whiskey diluted with water to wore than twent<r*five degrees under proof, was fined 20 » and costs. Mr Cooper, licensee of the Garrick ho. tel. died suddenly this morning, presum. ably from apoplexy. At the Supreme Court to day. P. J. Henly. auctioneer at Leeston, who mysteriously disappeared on May 20th, was adjudged a bankrupt Gisborne June 18. Robert Li I; tie has been committed for trial on achnrge of wilfully setting fire to stables in Lowe street.