NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Weilingtom. August 3 The M -aowtii, wjih London mails of July Hth left Frisco for Auckland on Jn y 2Gth, time table elite. The Alamada with Colonial mmli- of July Hth, reached Prison on August 2nd, time (able date. Captain Fairchild. of the Hiaomoa, which returned from the southern light , houses aud West Coast states the tveather experienced in the south was the worst he had met with for 30 years Snow and rain fell incessantly in the West Coawt Sounds The mountains and trees wrre covered with enow to tht water's edge, consequently tbo cold was mtense. Auckland. August 3. The Ovulau from Fiji reports the total loss of the Norwegian barque Ephialtes j on a reef at Fiji. She was in the com- I maad of Capt. Yorkeldsen and bound from Sydney to Navua. She went on the reef in thick weather and became a total wreck. All hands were saved. The Ephialtes, partly loaded with kauri gum at Auckland two years ago, made a te« cord passage of 73 days from Wellington to New York. Dunxdik, Augsut2. The Directors of the Westport Coal Company hare declared a difidend at the rate of 6 per cent for the half year. August 3. The Ofcago Synod's Committee earned resolutions strongly condemnatory of Mr MacGregor's Divorce Bill, except so far as to equalise the crime of adultery on the part of both. Frederick Nevarde, a carried, was killed near Kyeburn by a waggon capsizing. Timaru, August 3. Three tmlk dealers have be6n fined 208 and Ids costs for watering milk. Only three unsatisfactory samples were found out of 27.