NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 224, 22 March 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association. ) INe-lson', March 21. At the Supreme Court Thomas Berkett was found guilty of assaulting a married woman, nnd was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Gisboene, March 21. Saturday was the day proclaimed here for the weekly half-holiday, but it was found inconvenient,} and to avoid cJosin" on Saturday nest, a public half-holiday was declared to-day and observed. Auckland, a; arch 1. The Government has closed the whole of the oyster beds of Hauraki Gulf and Coromaudel for two years From North Cape to YVaitangi River will be open and south of that closed. The Sydney ship Wolveriue, formerly a warship on the Australian station, put into Rangitoto Channel this morning in distress. She is believed to be leaking badly. She is bound from Ss'dney to Liverpool with a cargo of tallow and shale. At the annual meeting of the Auckland Football Association J. F. Gibbon was elected delegate to the New Zealand Association . Terms and conditions were arranged for the visit of the Queensland team. Wellington, March 21. The Tongariro for London, via Monte Video and Rio, sailed this afternoon. She has nn unusually heavy passenger list, there being very few vacant berths in the ship. Woodvii.le, This Day. William Jones, landlord of the Commercial Hotel, and formerly well«.known as a coach driver on the Napier, Palmerston and Woodville roads, died sooaewh&t suddenly this morning.