NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 53, 28 August 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, August 27. The Avon Road Board decided to pay the £150 appropriated for the unemployed to the i harilable Aid Board, in order that the amount ma; be augmented bj Gov* ernmeut subsidy . In the Divorce Court to-day a degree nisi was granted in the cases Renby r. Ranbv and Wells v. Wells. Th« wife was the petitioner in each case. Dunedin, August 27, The directors of the Equitable Insurance Company have communicated with the Government in reference to the debate on the Company's affairs in the Legislative Council, stating that so far from objecting to any inquiry th«y court it. ISelson, August 27 At a lurge meeting to-night, resolutions were earned to the effect that the Government should insist as a matter of principle that the contract entered into by tne Midland Railway Company should be carried out, and urged every member of the Legislature to oppose the commission of a breach of contract. Auckland, August 27. Mr J, C. Hanna, of ihe Estates Co., at a meet of the Pakurangi hounds, had bis shoulder dislocated. The horse crowded on the fence, baulked, fell and rolled on him. Mr Hanna, who was formerly manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Palmerston North is progressing fayorablj. The New South Wales footballers were entertained this evening at asocial by the V.M.C Association. Six hundred people were present, including representatives from all the local bodies. Hawera, August 29. It has been decided to hold a dairy show in the Autumn, under the auspices of the Egmont Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The chief prize for cheese will be a trophy valued at 50 guineas, with £'10 cash to the maker of the cheese open to all the colony. IvVERCARGILL, August 27. The body of an infant was found on Sunday in a small creek near Fortrose, having apparently been about a week in the water. About sixty delegates of temperance societies are in town for the Alliance Convention which opens to-morrow.