NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 226, 25 March 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Timaru, March 24. The Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association report a satisfactory year financially, the accounts showing a profit of .£143 4s 5d They have nearly £300 in cash to their credit. Eeefton, March 23. An old resident, Mrs McCallutn, was found dead in bed this morning. Auckland, March 23. Philip Lequesne, manager of Sharland's was found dead in a bachelor's dwelling. He was knocked down by a bus, and subsequently appeared none the worse, and was taken home in a cab. A fellow lodger found Lequesne lying dead in a passage with an empty chloral bottle alongside. A swimming match across the Rangitoto channel from Beacon to Cheltenham beach, 4 miles, for L 25 aside, was won by Placke easily, Bines giving up when the former was 300 yards ahead, He said he took cramp. This Day. Mr W. P, Mouat, formerly M.H.R. for Rodney, and a member of various Bodies is dead, aged 68, The cause was heart disease. Chhistchurch, March 22. Mr E. O. Stavely, anccioneer, has ac cepted the position of manager at Christchurch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, vice E. S. Harley, who leaves on a lengthened visit to England owing to ill health. Nelson, March 23. In the Divorce Court, in Tbeak v. Theak and Newport, hupband's petition, there was no defence, and a degree nisi was granted. Wellington, March 23. The dissentient juryman in Traynor'a case at the last sessions, who was said to have refused to convict because he was a Prohibitionist and the man defrauded was a publican, a matter which caused a good deal of comment at the time, has made a statutory declaration that he ia not a prohitionist nor a teetotaler, and has no objection to drinking in public houses or anywhere else.