NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 175, 24 January 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PEB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, January 22. The Inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals successfully prosecuted nine persons at Clinton to-day for working horses with open sores. The fines and costs amounted to over £"21. The profit of the Westport Coal Company for the year was £16,400 7s 2d. A dividend of 6 per cent for the year was declared. Wellington, January 23. One of the prisoners working at Point Halawell, a young named Roderick Mac- < kenzie, escaped this morning and is still at large. He was serving a term of two years' imprisonment for houaebreaking at Napier. The Governor and party leave for the South by the Te Aimu on Saturday night 1 en route to the Southern Islands. This Day The 8.8. Hauroto, which arrived from Sydney this morning: brought IG3 pas sengers, of whom I JB landed here. Auckland, January 23 The Hon. Mr Cadman and partj left Okoroire to day for Whakatane, en route for the Waiwera County. The police records show ft large decrease in the number of offences of drunkenness and vagrancy, cruelty to animals, and stone -throwing, as compared with the hats of the previous year. Christchurch, January 23. At the Secondary Schools Conference this morning, Mr G. Hogben read a paper on " The Natural Method of Teaching Language." This afternoon a committee was appointed to draw up suggestions to be forwarded to the Minister of Education in regard to the Endowed Schools Bill.