NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 197, 19 February 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

, Per Press Association.) j New Plymouth, Feb. 18. 11 Edward Cartwright was drowned - yesterday while bathing in a dam off Corbett road. He was 21 years of age and lately from England. A new Catholic Church was consecrated by Archbishop Redwood j'esterday. Special trains from Hawera and intermediate stations brought nearly 300 people. Auckland, February 16. b An Italian barque from Hong Kong to a Ciiilao with rice, put into Russell short of s water and provisions. The captain and . mate are ill. AVellington, Feb. 18. The Premier leaves for the South on Wednesday and will deliver his promised address at Annaton on Friday night, going on thence next day to Eupara. Captain Allman is drawing regulations in accordance with the Shipping and , Seaman's Act of last session, for rating seamen and the compulsory marking of c the load line on vessels. ' Invercargill, February 18. The principal commercial offices in luvercargill advertise their intention to • close on Wednesday afternoon and keep open on Saturday, the Statutory afternoon. The J. G. Ward Company, Loan and Mercantile and National Mortgage 5 Company are among tlje signatures. It 1 is understood a test case will result. > Dunedin, Feb. 18. Last evening two boys found the body. ■ of a fully-developed female child on the 5 shore of the estuary, just above the last ■ high-water mark. The case is apparently ' one of infanticide. The ch^Jd had lived. The value of rateable 'property jn Dunediu for the present year shows a total of 1233/204, a reduction of .£10,411 upon last year's value, and of £17,796 upon that of 1893.