NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

« or Press Association.) Wellington, December 1. The report of Dr Butcher, of the Gothic, regarding the steward supposed to have developed scarlet fever is that he was merely suffering from influenza and tonsilitis, which it will not be necsssary to officially report. New Zealand will not be represented at the meeting of Premiers at Hobart to discuss the free exchange of Australasian products. Owing to the boisterous weather the Amateur Athletic Club's sports have been postponed till next Saturday. Auckland, December 1. Dr J. B. Kenderdine died this morning. A house owned and occupied by Mr D. Wilkinson, Pukekohe, was burned down It was insured in the Union for £'30. Messrs W. J. Napier, solicitor, and W. Duncan, valuer of the Land Tax Department, have been appointed under the Advances to Settlers' Ac' for the Aucktand Provincial District. It is understood the former is allowed private practice. At the Supreme Court, Judge Connelly sentenced George Murphy, Michael O'Brien, Robert Martin, James Thompson, and Geo. Waiters each to seven year's penal servitude, for assault and robbery, stating that if such crimes continued he he would be compelled in future to pass severer sentences, as the law allowed ser» vitude for life and three floggings. This Day. W. Potter, a young man, was killed at Ohinewai by the upsetting of a load of flax which he was conveying to the Railway Station. Colonel Fox denies that at the meeting of officers he used the expression 11 That the defences of New Zealand were looked on by sonsible men as a farce, and that it was treated by the Government possibly for political reasons." Napier, This Day, The Kaikora post office waj broken into early on Sunday morning. A number of letters were torn open but the safe was not touohed, very little apparently was obtained.