NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 260, 7 May 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦ (Per Press Association) Wellington, May 6. The case against Robert Parsons, charged with having laid totalisator odds at the races last week was dismissed. This afternoon the Premier informed a deputation from the Scenery Preservatirn Society, who urged the removal of the cab shelter at the Queen's Wharf, that in his opinion the buildings must be removed, The new cable across Cook Straits was laid this morning. The tests are now being made and will soon be in working order. Auckland, May 6. In the larrikin cases Ernest Grant and Arthur McEwen were fined £5 or fourteen days' imprisonment ; John Jones, alleged to be the ringleader, for being drunk and disorderly, two months. Mr Northcroft. S.M. promised to station two plain clothes men with a view to breaking up the Newton push. Wm. Chadwick's timber mill at Pahi, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The building was insured with the N.Z. Insurance Company for £2000, £1375 of which was reinsured in other officesNorwich £400, South British, £400, National, £275, Alliance £300. The Auckland Coolgardie syndicate received news to-day that its mine has been sold for £8300. A deposit of £300 has already been made, and the balance will be paid in three months. Uxjnedin. May 6. The police have made a successful raid in Edendale and Fortrose for sly-grog selling. Informations have been laid in four cases, mostly exhcensed houses. Hokitika, May 6. A preliminary meeting to establish a dairy factory has been held in the Town Half. It is proposed to establish a central factory at Hokitika with three creameries. The Government have decided to buy Clark's land near Lake Poerua, 3300 acres. It is understood the price is £1 pe* acre. Numbers of men are waiting to take up the land. [From Our Own Correspondent] Birmingham, This Day. Mr Lowes has leased the Birmingham hotel to A. W. Harrison, lately of Palmerston N., who will take possession early in June.