NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 57, 1 September 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Napikb. August 31The Chamber uf Commerce to«day passed a re>olution urging the Govern, meut to subst use the County Council bj n grant for the Napier Wa.roa road. Owing to the shortness of the Sheep Inspector's stuff, the country people are oft«*n put to great inconvenience in coming to town only to find the "ffice closed There is now a notice on the door that it is closed till February next. Auckland, August 31. Mr R. S. Bush, S M , b -id an inter view with a lunatic this afternoon A man walked into the M agi.*>trate'<* room aud mi id he wanted protection, as b<> was " Jack the Ripper," He made a long aud incoherent statement to tbeefi*ct that he had been boycotted because he was the ** Bipper," and the police wanted to poison him. He is in an aavlurn. During tin- the 28 days ending \ugust. 26th. 2080 tons of ore were crushed aud treated for a yield of £9168 worth of bullion. At the annual mopting of the hames G'B tHoinpanv a dividend of 6 per cen». was declared and £'313 carried forward This Day. A fire broke out in Hellaby's boiling down works at 1 a.m. It was confined to the tallow and bone departments. The lobs amounts to several thousand pounds. DrjNKDTN, This Day. There was a heavy fall of snow this morning. Jobs McKibbin, farmer, of Crown Terrace, shot himself at his residence yesterday. At present it is unknown whether it was by accident.