NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 41, 14 August 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) i'unedin. August 13. A child named Ethel May Booker, two years of age, was drowned in a well close to her parents' residence thx< morning The child was missed for a few minutos and was found floating in a well, which contained übout four feet of water, AH effoits to restore anitnution failed. A special meeting of the Education Board was hel>l to*day. The business was staied to bo to consider the Finance Oommtttefc's report but the Fi ance Committee bad no repo-t to present. During the discu-.pion it transpired that the matter the members irantvd to go into was the fillimr of a yacancj m the staff and the possible reorpanisitnn. r J he Board «ventu«|!j went in'o Committee. CnniSTCHURCn. vagurt 13. ! The Lrtteltoji Ki-iybts o f Labor raseed j a resolution regretting tbo lease in per p3tiity clause in the Land for S jillemcnt I'll!, aud ur^m; the adoption of perpetual lease. Auckland. Aueuetl3. At the inquest on T hum as Scott ex | school teacher, who committed suicide, a j verdict of suicide while suffering from nervous <-xcitabihij was returned. Tbe evidence showed he rogretted the net. The body of William Prince, one of the crew of the sunken fibbing yacht Lilj was found floating <.ff Tura.u. Berry's body baa not yet been recovered. Tbe criminal set-sums promise to be beavj. There are over 20 commifals al ready. The third officer of tbe Manposa, while uuperiotendiog the landing of car^o was struck by a block and tackle on tbe forehead with great force, and knocked down insensibU) tie was attended to by the doctor of the t-hip, Westport,| \ ugunt 13. A marvellous escape from a fatal accident occurred to day on the Nine Mile road. A man named Michael Leydon was using dynamite at work. He placed 12 plugs on a sheet of metal and warmed it over tbe fire. He was removing the dynaraite from the fire when it exploded. His feice was cut and brujied, and also his chest His eyes was injured but not seriously. GIeBORNE, This Day The Six George Grey hotel at Waereugoahiko was burned down this morning.