NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 32, 7 August 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

GAS EXPLOSION *IN WELLINGTON (Per Press Association.) *V KLLINOTOH. .August 6 The Trades' Council is considering the advisablencss of calling a public meeting to ventilate the grievances of the Shearers 1 Union in Australia and warn men not to engage in this Colony while the dispute is pending. The Council has also decided to ask the Government to reconsider their decision to impose a duty on fruit, on the ground that it would be an additional burden on the working classes, as they are large consumers of , fruit. This Day. An explosion of gas occurred at Singers' Sewing machine premises, in Willis street, this morning. Two assistants had their hair singed and a number of panes of glass were broken. John M. Martin, telegraph operator, a son -in -law of Inspector Thompson, of New Plymouth, died this morning from inflammation of the brain. Napikb, August 6 Father Kerrigan, formerly of Wellington and Blenheim, died to«day. aged 54. from bronchitis, after a very brief lines*. Major Scull j ih to be accorded a military funeral on Wodoealaj bj orde.* of the Defence Department Bierre, late Town Clerk of Danevirke, was brought up to day on a charge of embezzlement of £165 of the funds of the Road Board to which he was secretary. He was remanded for a week Dunedin, August 6. Andrew Suttie, arrested at Wellington on the charge of false pretences, was brought up today and remanded. Dr Wilson, lecturer on metallurgy and mining at. the"Ot»^o University tendered his resignation to-day. Auckland, August 6. A conference waa held at Bishop Luck's residence of Roman Catholic Bishops, when there were present : — Buhop Luck (Auckland.) Grimes (Chnstchurch), Dr Egan (Newton), as representative of Bishop Moran, Dunedm Archbishop Jted wood presided overal important matters were discussed, principally eduoatio nal. The Knights of Labor bare forwarded to the Minister of Libor a scheme for giving surburban holdings to town work* ers. It in proposed Govern me at >hould purchase 2000 acres of enrburban land within a mile of the railway station on the Koipara railway, dividing 1100 acres into two acre section 9 , leaving 600 for a common and roads, and erect cottages, charging a rental yielding the Government 5 per cent, on the gross expenditure. Timartj, August 6, The Royal Hotel at T*muka, an old wooden building, was destroyed by fire at 2 a.m. to day. The landlord narrowly escaped being burned to death, and was dragged out of the burning bouse by a constable. j Wanoanui, August 6. G. K ICirbwAod, for being* a, habitual ! drunkard,, was son I: by Judge Kottle this morniDgto the Welh&gtou Asylum for twelve months, under sections 42 and 43 of the Lunatics Act. Kirk wood was recently ro, eased from imprisonment in connection with a similar charge.