NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 26, 30 July 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

o [Per Press Association.] Wellington, July 29. Fifty-three cases of Martini Henri rifles came out by the Tainui form London consigned to the Defence Department. Cheistchurch, July 29. J. V. Colbnrne Veel died suddenly while attending a meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College today. He came to Canterbury in 1860, and joined the staff of the Press in 1878. He became secretary of the North Cmterbury Education Board, which position he held up to the time of his death. Mr Samnel Clarkson, formerly wellknown as a builder, and who arrived here about forty years ago, died to-day. I)unedin, July 29. The Ofcago Rugby Football Union decided to-day to send a team to Invercargill to play a return mato.h on the 18fch September. Mr John Roberts, C.M.G., has been elected president of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Show. George Munro has been committed for trial on a charge of forgery of his father's name. Auckland, July 29, The oldest army pensioner in New Zealand, Quartermaster-Sergeant Steel, is dead, aged 92 years. He came to Auckland in 1849, with pensioners under Colonel Hauliam. Edward Haylock Ray, an elderly man, has been committed for trial on a charge of procuring abortion. Napier. July 29. Towards the Ll2OO collected in the last week towards reducing the debt on the Napier Cathedral, the Eev. W. Colenso gave L4OO.