NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

I Per Press Association,! Dunedin, December 6. George Van Steen, formerly a resident of Clinton, has been arrested on a charge of maliciously setting fire to tbe premises of which he was lessee Tho directors of the Walton Park Coal Company recommend a dividend of 4 per cent, for tbe year, and the report was adopted. The retiring directors were appointed, This Day. The Knights of Labor carried resolutions protesting emphatically against the appointments of persons to tho Judicial Bench who are knowu to be opposed to a reform of the liquor traffic. Wanganui, December 6. The Countess of Glasgow left town today. Her Ladyship was delighted with the place which she considers one of the prettiest towns yet seen in the colony. It is probable that satisfactory arrangements will be made for three months' residence here, commencing at about the end of January. The work of the construction of new public baths has commenced. The baths are to be finished in January and will, if ready be opened on the 23rd of that month by Mr F. 11. Jackson, Alayor, wbo has just been elected for the third time. The water area will be 80ft by 40ft, the depth at low end 3ft and at shallow end 4ft. Christcuurch, December 6. Another slight shock of earthquake was felt here at 2.55 this afternoon. The Education Board to-day rejected the motion that a circular should be sent to each school committee in the district asking its opinion as to whether girls of all ages should be corporally punished in schools. The Lyttelton Harbor Board bas recommended that William Sinclair, of the tug Lytteltou, and Constablo Aloore be granted medals for their gallant behaviour in rescuing tho Hon. W. G. Walker's sou. Masterton, This Day. Air Hogg, M.H.R. , was entertained at a largo social last evening, and was presented with au illuminated testimonial and a purse of 56 soys. The proceedings were almost entirely non-political. Auckland, This Day. The Ovalau, from Tonga, briugs news that the Norwegian barque Prospect was badly damaged by getting ou tbe reef Nikulopa. Her cargo of copra was discharged, and tho vessel will probably bo sold.