NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 213, 9 March 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦ (Per Press Association.) Auckland, March 8. The Government Crown Lands De partment are taking active steps in thi direction of opening up for settlement as booh as possible such areas of land as hay( been acquired by Government in tb< once inaccessible territory known as tin " King " Country, in the Upper Waikatc basin. Lady Augusta Boyle, daughter of Lore Glasgow, is progressing favorably frorr . the recent accident. She was riding c ; barebacked pony at the time. ; Dunedin, March 8. At the City Police Court to-day Edwarc ; Favell, Inspector for the Benevolent Insti i tution Trustees, was charged by France! , Howie with assaulting her on three occa ; sions, and she prayed that the'defendam be bound over to find sureties to keep the peace. The evidence of plaintiff was tc [ the effect that defendant had attempted . undue familiarities, and in cross exam in a I- tion she admitted she had called on i [ number of other women to ascertain il . they had any complaints to make againsl I him. The Bench found that the evidenct ' of the complainant had been contradicted r in some respects and dismissed the case. Chbistchuech, March 8. The Medical Congress closed to-day, '- Dr Murray- Aynslej, of the Christchurch Hospital, was appointed permanent secretary. Steps are taken by the Medical Congress to have the New Zealand Association incorporated as a branch of the British Medical Association ; it was also decided to form a Medical Defence Union, and officers were elected. A petition from 20 male residents near the Belfast Freezing Works, asking that a block of land in the vicinity should be acquired under the Land for Settlement Act and cut into small allotments, has been forwarded to the Government. Wellington, March 8. The Bishop of Salisbury left for England, via Sydney, this afternoon. A fierce northerly gale has been blowing all day, but it did not interfere with the shipping arrangements, nor was there any damage done.