AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1894, Page 2

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NEW ZEALAND VILLAGE SETTLEMENT SCHEME. A PRONOUNCED SUCCESS. HOBART EXHIBITION. THE ATTENDANCE DISAPPOINTING ARRIVAL OF SIR J. FERGUSSON ARREST OF \ SHIP'S CREW FOR KIDNAPPING. CPKR FBKB* ASSOCIATION). Sydney, November 16. Arrived — Saturday, Talune and Tasmania from Anckland ; Sunday, Mararoa from Auckland. This Day. The Herald, commenting on the New Zealand Village Settlement report, regards the system as an indisputable success, and compares it with the unfaA r orable results attained in Australia. Adelaide. November 18. Sir J. Fergusson has arrived here from London and after a brief stay in Australia goes on to New Zealand, Heaays the an nouncement of his son's arrest ou a charge of setting fire to Trinity College at Glenalmond in Scotland was incorrect and that he received a cible at Colombo stating that his son had been in some trouble but the matter was settled almost immediately. Bhisbanr, November 18. Mr Hall chief oillcer and three of the crew ofthe William Manson have been arrested on a charge of kidnapping natives in the Pacific Islands. Warrants have also been issued for the arrest of three others. This Day. Captain Vos, skipper of the William Manson, was arrested in Sydney on a similar charge to the others. Hob vrt, This Day. Tho attendance at the Exhibition is not up to expectations.