NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 252, 27 April 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, April 26. The Governor has approved of the transfer of Capt. Nathaniel Johnston from the Hawera Mounted Rifles to the Captaincy of the Heretaunga Mounted Rifles. Auckland, April 29. Speaking at the opening of the Volun* teer Bazaar, the Governor, referring to the contention that money annually voted by Parliament for defences would be better spent in making roads and otherwise developing the colony, said that such was not the opinion of statesmen at Home who had made the foreign relations of the Empire a lifelong study. The inhabitants oi the Australasian colonies were ineiined to overrate their own security, and the old proverb still holds good, " If you wish peace prepare for war." He agreed with the remarks of Admiral Bridge recently delivered in Adelaide. He was not an alarmist, but he believed in making all possible preparations in time of peace. News has been received by the 'Frisco mail of the death of Mr John Cosgrove, merchant, San Francisco, formerly of Auckland. At » meeting of the North Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, a letter was read from the Auckland Hospital Board demanding immediate payments due of hospital fees, amounting to £816 and threatening a writ of the Sup* reme Court if not paid forthwith. It was decided that matters must take their ; course. . The parsonage of the Rev. Bisham was ; burned down at Te Awamutu. It was insured for £250, and the contents for £650 in the South British. John A'Deane, of Oisborne, appeared to-day at the Police Court to answer a charge under the Bankruptcy Act of failing to keep proper books. The case was adjourned. Wellington, April 26. The Premier has received a telegram ' from Mr Carroll stating that he had had - a long conference with the nativee at * Rautoki, and everything waa quiet. Instructions have been issued to the contingent of Permanent Artillery stationed I at Wellington to hold itself in readiness, f . in case it should be required to proceed ( to the East Coast. t Tjmatoj, April 25. t The Minister of £iabor addressed a t public moating at Teinuka under the aua- i pices of the Workers' Union. He spoke 1 on the Labour Bills and unemployed c scheme and the control of immigration. 1 Messrs Hall- Jones and Kelly also spoke, c Mr Buiton; ejt*M>H;R^ riioyed a yot.e of c thanks and confiden be to the Minister, c which was carried unanimouslj. ' 1 By the accidental fall of a pile of bage ' of flour in the Atlas mill a man named I C. Kennedy had his forehead f racturecl. « He was taken to liljebospitftli I