NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 6 March 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, March 5. Mr Button, M.H.R., after addressing the Electors receiyed a vote of thanks and confidence. He condemned the borrowing and much of the labour legislation of the Government. Dunedin, March 5. An inquiry was held before Mr Carew, S.M., into the circumstances connected with the fire at Robert Kennard's, Port Chalmers. The jury returned a verdict that the place was wilfully set fire to by some person or persons unknown, and added a rider that in their opinion the stock and furniture were over insured. Wellington, March 5 At a meeting of the Wairarapa Relief Committee it was decided to send the little boy West, of whom Mrs Ferguson had taken charge of since the wreck, to the Wanganui Collegiate School, MrEmpson, its headmaster having generously offered to educate him free of charge provided the committee supplied the little fellow with an outfit and provided for his board during the holidays. News has been received of the death at Coolgardie of Ernest Scully, lately of the Customs Department. He was wellknown in athletic circles in Auckland, ! Christcbureh and Nelson, where he had been stationed. He was a son of the late Major Scully, and was mentioned for conspicuous bravery at the wreck of the Rodondo on her voyage to. Western Australia some months ago.