NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.
(Ter Press Association.) Wellington. Ju'y 26 The Wellington Technical School propose to add to their branches ot instruc tion i hat of wood carving Oyoter beds are to be established hore by private industry The Harbour Board have accepted a tender for wharf extension. The amount 16 said to be be; ween £10,000 and £1 1.000 JV'apikk, July 2(>. A special meeting of the Council <.f Free Association was held rhi« afiernoor lor the consideration of some of the Labor Bills now before tlio House Certain alterations were su^os^ed in the Sliop and Shop Assistant and Shipping and teamen's Bills. The Shearers Accommodation Bill, as framed, was considered unworkable and the power conferred on the Inspectors and Stipendiary Magistrates too great. Auckland. July 26 A petition from 415 Paruell residents asking Parliament to exempt improve ments from local rating and to levy them instead upon land values only, was fur* warded to Mr La wry, M.H.R Thomas Scott, ex.ecboolmasfer. residing at Nortbcote, attempted suicide bj cutting his throat. Scott who is 45 years of ago. has been out of employment, and bad been very despondent lately, A member of the Ambulance Corps residing in the neighbourhood dre used and band* aged the wounds which arc not regarded as fatal. Railway communication is still blocked at Motumaho, two miles north of M orrinsville. Trains, however, are running on each side of the break in the em bankment. The engineers hope to restore communication by noon to-morrow. Invebcargill, July 26 Bichard Mestyn Hoops, who left here per s.s Wakatipu , has been arrested in Melbourne on a charge of wife desertion Constable Burrowa leaves on Monday to biing him back, Hoops had been for some time a clerk to a firm in town, but his wife was residing in Duoedin. It is said that her suspicions were aroused by hearing that her husband had been spreading a statement that see wai in bad health which was cot true, and she came to Invercargill to find that Hoops had disappeared.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1894, Page 2
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339NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1894, Page 2
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