NEW-ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, 2 July 1895, Page 2

NEW-ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AN INTERESTING EELIC. MUNICIPAL LOANS. | Per Press Association I CmusTcmnicii. July 1. At a Prohibition meeting last nighr, it was stated that it was intended to lay an , information against Inspector Broham for perjury, alleged to have been committed j in the course of his eyidenco in the recentcase in connection with Cocker's Hotel. t At a meeting of the Canterbury , Women's Institute, resolutions were passed urging tho abolition of capital punish--5 rnent and the repeal of the CD. Act ; it was also decided to petition the Minister . of Justice to commute the sentence of death passpcl on Mrs Dean to imprison- , ment for life. j The number of unemployed who have been given work in the City is 112. The City Council to-uight endorsed the resolution of the Woodville Borough Council thf.t the law regarding polls on loan proposals should be altered so that T a throe-fifths majority carry the poll, [ and that absentee ratepayers should not as at present, be reckoned as voting ' c against the proposal. j. Rekfton, July 1. r The Cumberland gold return was [ 131oz amalgam for 12 tons (clean up), and that of the Alpine 3670z amalgam j from 295 tons (clean up). 3 Auckland, July 1. J A young man named Frank Messenger is in the hospital suffering from swallowing thirteen match-heads. He was gum-digging in the Hunia district, but [ not being fortunate came to town. He said he tried to get work when he came , to Auckland but failed. lie was driven almost to desperation through hunger and want of work. He is now progressj ing favorably. A school of 27 whales has been stranded on the Muruwai Beach, near Kaipara Heads. They were evidently blown ashore by the western gale, and were all alive at noon to-day. They measure 30ft to 50ft in length, and extend along the beach for two miles. Two hotels in the city were robbed on • Sunday—the Rising Sun and the Caledonian .- DujN'edin, July 1. A man named James Reid, with a number of aliases, has been arrested by Detective O'Connor on the charge of • breaking into the Christchurch Museum • and stealing articles to the value of over £40. Reid had only just landed from the 3 Coriuna. The executors of the late Dr Stuart ■ haye handed over to the University Council for the Museum a snuff-mull, which had been the property of the poet Burns. Napier, July 1. A man named Norton has been com- \ muted for trial on a charge of attempting 1 to steal the contents of a cash-box from a butcher's shop. ■—"■■■ *■»