NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 111, 5 November 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.") Masterton, November 8, A purse of fifty guineas was presented today to L. F. Ay non, curator of the Masterton fish ponds*, as a mark of esteem for tbe Rieut services he had rendered in angling pursuits Christchurch, November 4. Edward _cott, a man 62 years of ag«, who cut his throat with a razor at Kaiapoi last Sunday died in the hospital to day. Leila Adair, the lady balloonist, met with an accident while making an ascent on Saturday afternoon. \ gust of wind caught the balloon just after it had been released, and Mibs Adair was carried against a wire clothes line and hurled to the ground. Her head was severely cut from the crown to the neck, her left wrist dislocated, and she was severely bruised. Mr Saunders, M.H R for Selwyn ad dressed a meeting of bis constituents at Waddingcon on Friday evening, and received a vote of thanks and confidence. At the Magistrate's Court W. J. Scott, boardinghouse keeper at Cheviot, was oommitted for trial on a oharge of perjury in the case of si v grog selling bron.ht against him a few days ago Bail was allowed for £100 and one surety of .£IOO. WKLLiNGTorT, November 2. The attendance at th. Carterton Show was about 6000— tho best on record The mail room of the Chief Post Office has selected Mr Jessupas a candidate for the Appeal Board of the Postal and Telegraph DepartmentWoodvillk. This Day. At a meeting on Saturday it was de* ckled to form a fruit growers' association fipr tbf district,