NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 160, 5 January 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

IPBB PBESa *B3OOXATIOV.) Auckland, January 4. At a general meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Insurance Company, to be held next Wednesday, a dividend at the rate of I 2& per cent per annum will be declared and a payment of £12,500 in bonuses to shareholders will be recommended. Wellington, January 4. Captain Allman, Nauiical Adviser to the Government, and Mr Hay, of the Public Works Department, will next week surrey Cape Palliser for a suitable site for the lighthouse which the Government have decided to erect there. A deputation of shopkeepers will wait on the Minister of Labor on Monday to ask if under the Shop Assistants Act clerks engaged in shops come under the definition of ordinary clerks, and leave work at 5 o'clock or are classed a3 assistants enabling them to work until 6 o'clock. The aggregate tonnage at the wharves this morning exceeds 40.000 tons and includes four direct and three intercolonial steamers. Uhristchurch, January 4. Mr D. Buddo, M.H.R. for Kaiapoi, addressed a meeting of his constituents last evening he received a vote of thanks and confidence, and an expression of confidence in the Government was also passed. Woodville, This Day. Pask, a carrier employed in the cooperative works at Coonoor, was drowned when fording the Mananratu river on horseback. Dunedin, January 4. The Taieri County Council has decided to retrench by reducing the wages of surfacemen 6d a day, members' travelling expenses by one-half, and salaries of Clerk and Inspector by £20 per annum each.