NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 69, 18 September 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, Sept. 17. ColHngs, keeper of Lushington's yacht Muratai, and formerly master of the schooner Marmion, had to have his hand amputated through injuries while band- . ling dynamite for fishing. W. and J Pett's grocery store, Karaegabape road, was burglarised and robbed of a quantity of tobacco. In the case of Jane Beaver and Thomas John Beaver, forgery of a deed of transfer and a bill of sale, transferring lands and chattels of John Beaver to his wife Jane Beaver, was strongly recommended to mercy on the ground that the female prisoner is believed to be subject to delusions. Sentence was deferred till Friday. Wellington, Sept. 13. At the inquest of the woman Tiedney, the evidence showed she and her husband had been drinking. The last he remembered of her was seeing her sitting on the table and in the morning she was on the door dead. It is supposed she fell off the table and being of stout habit was suffocated. This Day. At a meeting of the Council of the Wellington University College the Bishop of Wellington presided. Dr Chappie stated that owing to the pressure of public business the Premier had been unable to receive a deputation urging that the Mount Cook prison site be given to the University. A petition in favour of this course was signed by 6450 citizens. Dtjnedin, Sept. 17. Mr Stewart Waddell, who has been appointed trainer to the Hon. J. D. Ormond, has been presented with a purse of 50 guineas. The city Mayoralty will be contested by Messrs Fish and Wales. Napier, September 17. The passenger steamer wharf at the breakwater will be ready in about a fortnight, and the old trouble of transhipping in the roadstead will be a thing of of the past. The Harbour Board decided to-day to celebrate the event with a demonstration, and to ask the shipping companies to run cheap excursions from north to south. Nelson, September 17. At a meeting of temperance organisations here it was unanimously resolved that it is desirable that the local option poll be taken on the. same day as the general election. Copies of the resolution are to be forwarded to the Premier and Mr Graham, member for Nelson. Christchurch, This Day. W. L. Mountfort, of the Wanganui telegraph office, son of the well known Christchurch aucl itect, was found drowned in the Avon. He was on sick leave.