NEW ZEALAND TELGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 297, 20 June 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELGRAMS.

]Per Press Association) Auckland, June 17. The Northern S.S. Company have purchased tlie business ofthe Coromaudel Steam Boat Company, subject to the approval of the latter Company's shareholders. Wellington, June 19. Arrived, at 5 p.m., Ruapehu from London. Her dates are : — Plymouth, May 4th ; Teneriffe, 9ih ; Cape, 26th ; Hobart, 15th June. From Hobart she encountered moderate gales with high seas and squally weather. Towards the end ot May she passed 14 icebergs- On May 81st, Robertson, an A.B. fell from the foreyard and broke his leg. The passage was an uneventful one. This Day. Bunting is plentifully displayed on the shipping and throughout the city to-day on account of Ascension Daj'. At noon the warships Plyades and Ringarooma fired salutes. A number of Chinese having applied to the City Council for licenses to act as carriers, the Carriers' Union waits on the Council to-night protesting against this on the ground the competition is unfair. Napier, June 19. At the Supreme Court Michael Sullivan, for wounding Arthur McCartney, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment ; Geo. Ellis, alias W. Roberts, for forgery, was sent to gaol for two years ; Stephen Brigbting convicted of horse stealing, for twelve months ; and Richard Torpey, for forgery, to two years. Christchurch, June 18. The weather is bitterly cold, with frequent showers of rain and sleet The Wakatipu took 305 sheep from Lyttelton to tbe Sydney show and sales. Tbis Day. A large representative meeting was held at Cheviot and a resolution carried to ask tbe Government to capitalise tbe next half-years rent at 4 per cent for five years. A deputation bas been appointed to interview the Ministers.