NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 63, 11 September 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

«. (Per l'ress Association.) Wellington, This Day. A heavy northerly gale blew last night, culminating after midnight in a heavy thunderstorm. The lightning was extremely vivid, and the thunder most continuous. The morning is clear and bright. Auckland, Sept.lo At the Supreme Court sessions Daniel 1 Egan, for alleged false pretences, was acquitted. The Colonial Sugar Company have reduced the prices of its sugar i-1 per ton. In addition to the mills recently started the Kauri Timber Comapny are starting both the Tairua and Whangapoa mills in time to fulfil the ordera arising from the increasing demand of the export trade. Contracts are to be let to cut thirty to forty million feet, labour being largely absorbed. The Royal Oak Hotel and Robin's grocery store at Onehunga were burglarised, money, bottles of whiskey and to bacco were stolen. Duxedin, Sept. 10. The police have arrested three men named James Eastward, James Miller and William Hudson (wrestler) for conspiring to defraud another man by means of the confidence trick. The Directors of the Kempthome Prosser & Co., New Zealand Drug Co. have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 7£ per cent, per annum. The total number of applications for 10,346 acres of the Marewhenua estate, recently purchased by the Government, is 626. The estate is subdivided into 74 lots, and every section has been applied for. The ballot takes place to-morrow at Oamaru. Complaint is made by the members of the Ladies' Cycling Club that when they appear tbey are subjected to annoyance by men aa well as by larrikins. Napier, Thia Day. An action began in the Supreme Court W 7 hittington v. H. P. Cowen, chairman of the Hospital Trustees, a claim for £496 for alleged breaches of the Local Bodies Contractors Act. The case is likely to last two days. Chbistchubch, September 10. A man named Sheppard was found at tbe back of the Pier Hotel, Kaiapoi, today suffering from the effects of poison. A bpx of " Rough on Rats " was found in one of his pockets. Hp is expected to recover. Napier, September 10. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were opened this morning. Geo. Norton was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for attempted theft, and Ernest Wright, on two charges of theft, to six months. Hokitika, Sep. 10. A howling nor'-wester set in this afternoon, and a heavy thunderstorm with much lightning.