NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 245, 18 April 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, April 17. H.M.S. Rapid has arrived from Melbourne. She goes to Fiji in a fortnight. Senior Councillor Chas. Atkinis dead, He was one of the pioneers of the Albertland settlers. The city schools committee and Board of Education have got to loggerheads over the appointment of an assistant master to the Berosford street school. They regard the ignoring of their wishes as an infringement by the Board of the spirit of the Education Act. Three prominent tradesmen have been summoned as a test case over tbe Saturday half-holiday business. News has been received that the ketch Kestrel, belonging to Kaiapoi and bound from Cook Straits sounds to K'dpara with timber, is ashore on the Bonlder Beach at Croiselles. The vessel was sheltering from a heavy storm when the anchor parted and she drifted on to the beach. Captain Taylor states that the yes sel is in danger. Little hopes are entertained of floating her. By a boating actid mt at Russell yesterday a Norwegian, his young son, and daughter were drowned. Dunedin, April 17, Addressing the "Volunteers jnst before breaking up camp Col. Fox said that among the regiments in New Zsaland he had found officers as capable as any offi* cers he had ever met with. Hie had found grit among the officers and men, which in the face of all sorts of difficulties was most creditable, and he congratulated them all on the manner in which the work during the encampment had been done. Wellington, April 17. The Aorangi had a stormy voyage of 112 hours from Timoru.