NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 117, 13 November 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦ (Per Press Association.) Westport, November 12. The steamer Warkworth is nearly a week overdue from Wanganui. The weather m ihe Straits has been very bad. Auckland, November 12. The Maori girl burnt to death at Whan garuru was the daughter of a Maori named Karen*. In placing three on the fire her clothing caught fire New Plymouth, November 12. A body has been washed ashore near Moturoa, believed to be that of Staunder. who was supposed to have gone out fish ing in v canoe and has been miosing for a week. Wellington, Norpnv er 12. The departures from the colony in Oct ober were 1779. and the arrivals i 0 uoi ig however the whole of the Wairarapa's list, 1906. There wovld have been a net gain of 127 but thi* is reduced by the number of passengers drowned in the steamer. The Appeal Court is engaged in hear ing an action by the Commissioner of Taxes, who claims that certain deeds made in his lifetime by John Chambers sheep farmer of Hawke's Bay, are in tended to evade pajment of succession duty Chambers having died in 1693. The estate is valued nt £75,000 to £100,000, and a large amount of duty is involved This Day The candidates for the Mayoralty are A. de 13. Brandon, the present Mayor, S. L. Harris and C. M. Luke. The election is on the 28inst. Timaru, November 12 An elderly woman named Wilds was found drowned in a water hole near her house in North street this evening Hokitika, This Day. The schooner Heroine is ashore a mile north of Arahura. The crew landed 6afelv.