NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 59, 6 September 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.") Reefton, Sept. 4. The Big Ben Riyer directors have signed an agreement to sell the property to Mr Guthridge, representing a Home syndicate, for £25,000. A deposit, of £10,000 has been lodged. At a public meeting of the parents and guardians of the children attending the State School, resolutions were passed censuring the committee for its action in closing the school and refusing admission to Mr Harkness, the master appointed by the Edncation Board, and expressing confidence in Mr Harkness as a master. A committee was formed to act with the Education Board, and, if necessary, take proceedings against the School Committee tor closing the school. Westport, Sept. 5. W. G. Morgan, late postmaster at the Inangahua junction, was charged with embezzling a postal letter containing i!22, and remanded for a week. Bail was allowed. At the Magistrate's Court to day two small boys pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the co-operative store at DennistoD, and were sentenced to six and three strokes respectively with a birch rod. A third boy, over 16 years, the ringleader, similarly charged, will be brought up tomorrow. Wellington, Sept. 5. At the Police Court, John Lawson, licensee of the Gridiron iloteJ, waa fined 40s and costs and his license endorsed for selling liquor on Sunday. Tho gold returns for August from the Roxburgh Amalgamated Sluicing Company is 2540z sdvvfc 18grs of gold. Dunedin. September 5. Mr William Hendley, well known in cricketing circles, has died in the Hospital. A young man named Spence was arrested to-night for attempting suicide. He was found hanging to a tree, but was cut down and taken into custody before life was extinct. Auckland, September 5. Cook Bros., of Whangamumu, have captured 18 whales for the season. At a largely attended meeting of settlers at Mararetu, it was unanimously resolved that the Northern Railway Committee remain in office to call public meetings and keep up agitation by every possible means till Government give some tangible proof of their immediate intention of completing the railway to Wangarei. Invercargill, September 5. John N. Rose, an elderly man, was charged at the Magistrate's Court with attempting to murder his son-in-law William John Kissel), by striking him with an axe. Rose had been drinking and was locked out. He burst open the door with an axe, and going to Kissell's bedroom made, it is alleged, a blow at him but Kissell warded it off with his arm. The lease was adjourned till co morrow morning,