NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 301, 25 June 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

"•> I Per Fress Association | Auckland, June 24. Drum Major Shnnagan, late ofthesßtb regiment is dead, oged 72. He served in the Northern war in 1845 1 The liability of blank transfers to duty in a case of interest to shareholders and ' speculators, was decided by Mr North- ' ciofr, S.M. to-day. The vendor was ' fined .£2O and costs In the case of the 3 purchaser, judgment was reserved. ' Gisboene, June 24. At a meeting of the Gisborne School Committee it was decided to invite Mr Lewis to attend a meeting on Wednesday evening, and substantiate his state--1 ments regarding the conduct of school ' children. 1 Christchurch, June 24. The Licensing Committee to day 1 granted the renewals of licenses to nine ' of the hotels, the applications in respect ' of which had been deterred. ■ Nelson, This Day. * The Industrial Exhibition is to open on * August 28th. The space of 3500 ft has 1 already been applied for. ' jNavikb, June 24---jl Isabella Laws, for embezzling the _ funds of the Good Templars Lodge of > which her husband was Secretary, re- ' ceived a sentence of 12 months' hard ' labor. The Chief Justice declining to ex- * tend to her the benefits of the Probation > Act. '' The libel action, Hyruan P. Cohen 1 (chairman of the Charitable Aid Board) v '» C. M. Wittington, editor of the Waipawa ' Mail, in which plaintiff claims .£260 dam 1 ages was commenced at the Supreme ' Court this morning. Defendant ia his > newspaper termed plaintiff a " brumma- '' gem philanthropist," hence the action. ' The case is likely to last a couple of days. '> Wellington, June 24. ■* Yesterday a well antlered buck deer ;• made its appearance in Lowry Bay, on '| the other side of the harbor, and plunged » into the sea. Two men put out in a boat and got him to shore with a rope fast- " tened to the antlers, but he showed fight 1 and would not be caDtured and immedia--7 tely took to the water, landing at the > Hutt. Hitherto no deer have been seen on this side of the range. This Day. Four Chinese storekeepers were fined in sums ranging from £i to £2 for failing B to close on the weekly half-holiday. ; Timaru, June 24. '■> The rivers are all rising rapidly, and 'i will be in heavy flood in the next few t hours if the rain continues.