NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 214, 11 March 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

o (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, March 8, In the lawn tennis tournament Koch won the Men's Single Championship beating Beddingtou in the final 6-1, 6— 4. Koch and Harraway won the Men's Doubles. Miss L. McKerras again won the Ladies' Championship. Wellington, March 9. In the Magistrate's Court, Albert Fernandez, a local jeweller, was charged with stealing two watches, one belonging to Hart, cook of the Aorere, and the other to Henry Savage, a settler ut Kaitoke. Both watches had "been left with the accused for repairs and be had left the district without accounting to the owners for them Accused was committed for trial on both charges. An offer has been reoeived from a London syndicate to place the Wakamarina Golden Bar Company on the London market, where it is thought the property can be successfully floated. Chbistchuech, March 9. A petition from 90 more residents, near the Belfast Freezing Works, asking that a block of land in the vicinity should be acquired under the Lands for Settlement Act, and cut into small allotments, has been forwarded to the Government. The barque City of Adelaide, berthed at the Gladstone pier, sprang a leak a few days ago, and will be docked She has part cargo for Napier, which will be transhipped to the steamer Dingadee. The fete given in aid of the hospital destitute patients' fund realised .£SO. Auckland, March 9. A boy named Cottingham fell over the wharf near the Ovalau. The boatswain of the schooner Isabel Edward Hargraves jumped over and rescued him. The Auckland Polo Club in the match with Kihikihi defeated the latter by 13 points to nil. The former Club held a serieß of sports to-day at Potter's paddock. There was a good attendance including Lord Glasgow and a party from Government House and the officers of HM. ships. At a meeting of the City rifle companies, the City and Victorians, which had contemplated disbanding, decided to go on, as the new regulations were more practicable and less exacting. This Day. Edward Lemon, v settler at Motukarawba, was found dead, hanging by the neck, from a bat peg in the passage of the Kohukohu hotel. " Wellington, March 9. The barque Rangitikei, now on her way here, has been chartered to take 350,000 feet of Westland timber Home, which is equal to about eight hundred tons. New Plymouth. March 10 At a public meeting held on Saturday afternoon, it was resolved to form a company to be called the Taranaki Freezing Works Company, with a capital of LIO.OOO in two thousand shares of L 5 each, for the purpose of providing cool storage for dairy and other produce and for meat freezing. The works will be erected at the breakwater.