NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 44, 20 August 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

c (Per Press Association.) Wellington", Aufrnst'iy. In the case of B. F. Dary at the Supremo Court, charged with applying the Wcrthcim trademark to sowing machines prosecutor applied to postpone tbe case till next session in the absence of a material witness. Mr Jellicoc .strongly objoctod but tho Judge granted tho postponement. Two hundred and eleven men have been taken on the relief works, and no more can be accommodated. The Brunnerton rates for hewing have been reduced by oil and 4d per ton. The notice intimates that this has to be done to enable the mines to compete with coal now being imported into the colony. Two lads, Brown and Conroy, who have already been several times tried this session on various charges, were found guilty of receiving property knowing it to have been stolen. Sentence was deferred, Auckland, August 19. The Cambridge Farmers' Club appointed John Fisher delegate to the meat freezing conference at Wellington, Nicholas Hunt; represents the Agricultural Association. At the annual meeting of the Auckland Co-operative Boot and Shoe Company the report recommended a bonus of 2.1 per cent, to the employes. It was resolved to increase tho capital from £1000 to .£6OOO. CiinisTCHUßCii, August 19. At the Supreme Court to-day the case of F. Scott v. J. Winter, junior, both of Swananoga, an action to recover £200 damages on account of seduction of plaintiffs daughter, was heard before Justice Denniston and a common jury of four. The jury found for plaintiff for i! 100 damages. At a meeting of the Harper Memorial Committee this afternoon the proposal of Bishop Julius that a cenotaph with the recumbent figure of the late Bishop should be placed where the vestry is now situated was adopted. The amount available will be about £650. Duxedin, August 19. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society, it was mentioned that the severe winter had been very destructive in the interior to ducks and pukakis, and that the latter had pretty well died out. Mill. McLean, of liawera Flat, wrote that snow had driven the deer down to the fiat, and that they were quite tame. He bad never seen such snow in Juno before. One of the stags brought from Melbourne had taken shelter in his woolshed, where he had been fed for weeks. The stag has since taken shelter in the gully. __________