NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 63, 8 September 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

• (Per Press Association.) .Napier, September 7. John Heslop, senior, an old settler, nged 82, died to-day. Messrs Napier, Bell, and Maxwell, consulting engineers emplojed by the Harbour Board, have presented their report on the breakwater. Tboy estimate that to maks good the damage done by the late gales and thoroughly strengthen that portion of the work will take £19,000 but thej add that in works of that nature much more -serious damage is done. Auckland, September 7. At tbe Supreme Court to day a man named William Sharp McCormick was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on two charges of cr-minal offences on ohildren. Judge Cenolly said it was the worst case ia bis experience, At the children's flower show, opened by the Mayor, 450 children entered, and there were over 700 exhibits. Lady Glasgow's prizes were won by a pupil in tbe public school, and Bishop Lnsk s by a pupil at the convent school. CHHISTCHURCH, Sept, 7. At a meeting ofthe Chamber of Commerce to-day, a motion was earned that in the opinion of the Chamber the best interests of the railways and the colony would be best served by a continuance of the present system of management by the Commissioners free of political con' trol. Wellinoton, This Day. The Warship Walaroo returned from Akaroa this morning and after coaling left nt noon for Noumea probably to assist at tbe wrock of the Rmgarooma.