NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 296, 19 June 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

■ *•" r | Per Press Association! Napier, June 18. At the Supreme Court, Isabella Laws pleaded guilty to a number of indictments of forgery. At the request of Council for prisoner, sentence was deferred till Friday. Wellington, June 18. The Solicitor-General is taking steps to test the validity of the Cyanide patents in the colony. In discharging the jurymen not required in a civil case in the Supreme Court to-day, Justice Richmond, in explaining the reason so many were summoned, said it was owing to the abuse of the right to challenge practised in this district. The agreement with Mr Freyburg, the London timber expert, expires in August and it is not considered likely that it will be renewed. The Tainui left London for Wellington on Saturday last. Christchurch, June 18. T. H. Wigley, formerly a member of the Legislative Council died yesterday. A. Harman, the well-known cricketer, died of pneumonia to-day. Up to the present 157 men have put down their names at the City Council Chambers as applicants for work to be provided out of the relief fund. Four more of the charges brought by the prohibitionists against the hotelkeepers for Sunday trading were heard to-day. The decisions were reserved till the five remaining cases have been heard. The have been adjourned sine die, the Magistrate not yet being able to fix a date when he will take them. Auckland, June 17. At a meeting of the Birkenhead Fruit Growers' Association, it was decided to communicate with the Premier, protesting against the treaty betweeen New Zealand and South Australia being ratified on the ground that it would seriously injure the fruit growers. i Nelson, June 18. An influential meeting was held to night relative to the Nelson Art Gallery. A resolution was carried tendering thanks to Mrs Suter for the munificent gift she had bestowed on citizens as a site for the Art Gallery in memory of her late husband Bishop Suter, after whom the gallery will be named. A strong committee was albo appointed to raise LSOO towards the erection of the gallery. Dunedin, June 18. Notice has been served on the principal claim-holders whose tailings are discharged into the Waipori River, at the instance of tbe farmers at Berwick, that unless the fouling of the river is stopped immediately, they must seek relief from the Supreme Court. The matter has caused consternation among the miners.