NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

, (PEB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, January 19. , The Chamber of Commerce hav» re--1 solved to co-operaie with the New Zea land Chamber in taking joint action to protest against the compulsory use of the i cable code used by tho Eastern Extension , Telegraph Company. The traffic of the Rotorua Railway is 1 regarded as verv satisfactory, both as re i gards passengers and goods Practically speaking the whole of the goods for Rotorua now go by rail. Government have reduced the price for puriri sleepers from 4s to 3? 6d. Great dissatisfaction exists among those who having abandoned gnm digging owing to , the low prices, have taken to splitting ' sleepers. In most cases they have to pay a royalty of 6d per sleeper. Wellington, January 20. I Applications for cheap monej continue ! to come in at a good rate. About 700 have now been received Timaru, January 20. H. M. Wolistein, a Timaru boy, Lieutenant in a Rifle corps at Christchurch, , who won the Imperial commission, has been ordered by cable to join the First Scottish in India immediately. Westport, January 19. Mr Moyniban, solicitor, who was in jnred by a fall from his horse on Thurs day is in a very low state, being paralysed over the greater part of the body, As a last chance, the medical men will perform a delicate operation for removal of the j pressure on the spinal cord to-morrow morning. Christchurch, January 19. The boy Cowper, who was run over by the New Brighton train yesterday morning and whose left arm and left leg were amputated, died at the Hospital at 10 o'clock last night. The Bishop of Salisbury arrived from South by the express last nig'it. He preached this morning at the Cathedral to a very large congregation.