NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

4» (PBS PBKSa ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, December 28. A number of the patients from the Avondale Lunatic Asjlnm have been transferred to the Motuibi quarantine station. Some firms have given notice to their clerks that on the Shop Hours Bill c<>m iug into force they must start at eight o'clock instead of nine. Simon Miller, Alfred Clare, Edward Wilson, Thomas Davis, and Charles Webster have been arrested on charges of assault and robbery on a young man named James Dooley, who alleged he was knocked down at night in Abercrombie street and robbed of £16. Christchurch, Dec. 28. This evening a six-roomed house at Springfield road belonging to Geo. Hassel was destroyed by fire. The fire is be heved to have originated trom a defective chimney. It was insured in the National for £125. Wellington, This Day. The Hon Mr Reeves returned from Australia by the Port Melbourne, which arrived this morning. John Cailaghan, another of the Kaikoura's fireman, was committed for trial in connection with the assault on Quartermaster Harris. Carterton. Dec "28 A stormy meeting of the Carterton School Committee was held last evening as to the appointment of a headmaster. Six out of the nine committeemen still insist that the present master be appointed. A petition in bis favor has been signed b> 97 parents out of 112, representing 270 out of the 804 children on the roll. It is intended to call a public meeting to ask Mr W. C. Buchanan to explain his actions.