NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 194, 15 February 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

•■ THE AUCKLAND SHOOTING CASE (Per Press Association). John Swan was charged to day at the Magistrate's Court with the attempted murder of Hugh Campbell, solicitor. The case was remanded Bail was refused, Gisboene, February 14. { In the Validation onrt, Mersrs Carol] and Wi Pere. trustees for the natives, and Mr Jackson, Registrar of the Court, have been appointed Receivers in the Paremata estate, in which she Bank Estates Company is interested Judge Barton made a statement expressing pleasure at the satisfactory working of the Court. Oamaku, February 13. For the 69 acres of Jand at Knrow, adjoining the township purchased by the Government, cut up for settlement in five to ten acre blocks, applications have been already received at rentals in advance of what the Government paid. Auckland, February 14. At the Presbyterian As^emuly, tbr Temperance Committee's report which was read expressed regret at the neglect of the police in not bringing the law to bear upon those who sold drink after hours and Sunday trading This Day. The Presbyterian Assembly has promised Ml5O a year towards a steam mission vessel between Australia and New Hebrides. Wellington, Feb. 14. The Westland sawmillers intend to send at once 350,000 feet of rimu and birch to London for street paving. The Kauri Timber Company are sending 60,000 feet of kauri. ■ Dunediu, February 14. Mr M Joyce, one of the earl settlers at Port Chalmers, died there this morning, aged 79. Mr J. Joyce, VJ .H R. for Lyttelton, is his son. Danevibke, February 14. The insurances on the recent fire so far as thej are kuown are as follows :—Cooperative—Stock, £6QO in the United ; 4>259 in the Norwich Union. Building — £415, said to be in the New Zealand. Gordon's stck, £700, and buildiog i-175, in the Phoenix.