NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 171, 18 January 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

tPKB PRESw ASSOCIATION.) Chklstchurch, January 15. Mr W. W. Collins, junior member for Christchurch, addressed a meeting of his constituents last night, and received a vote of confidence. Be generally supported the Government and the policy of the Liberal Party. Auckland, January IG. Mr Gill, Land Purchase Agent, has concluded for the Government the purchase of extensive blocks of land, Rotomahana, Parekaranga, Okahu, and othor blocks of several miles frontage to the Rotorua Lake. Altogether 167,000 acres have been purchased, for which about £'20,000 ( will be paid Dunedin, January 17. The Education Board unanimously decided to sanction the Inspection of Catholic schools by the Board's Inspectors. Wellington, January 17. The appointment of Mr W. A Fitzherbert as a member of the Wellington Land Board has been gazetted, and it is understood Mr Fred Pirani will also be shortly gazetted a member. An Order in Council notifies that the capitation allowance to Education Boards for the quarter ending 31st March, 1895, shall be according to the working average attendance of tbe qua I;r ending on 31st day of December, 1894. Nelson, January 17. Some girls were bathing in the Maita River today, when two got beyond their depth and were drowning when their cries attracted a young man, Fred Poole, who jumped in. The girls clung to him, and he experienced a narrow escape, but managed to struggle ashore with one girl, and two other men arriving the second girl was also saved. Napier. January 17 An infant named Goulett was discovered dead in bed this morning. A verdict of overlain by the mother was brought in.