NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 70, 19 September 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

.» (Per Press Association.) Auckland, Sept. 18. Richard Spratt, a prominent member of the Mining Exchange, died this morning. He was universally respected. Tbe deceased was local adviser of the London shareholders of the Waihi Coy. besides other Coys. A petition is being signed to Government to initiate a trial of Vaile's railway system on our railways. One thousand signatures were procured to day. Tbe Insurers' Protection Association postponed for further consideration the proposal to affiliate the associations of the colony. Tbere are now 100 members, representing risks of £2,000,000. The finances are satisfactory. Mr James Scott McLaurin has been elected graduates' representative on the Auckland University Council without opposition. Iv the Supreme Court the case against Edward Haylock Percy, charged with administering medicine to Margaret Fraser for the purpose of procuring abortion, a verdict of not guilty was returued. Dunedin, Sept. 18. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of John Phillip Pieccy, late licensee ot the Grand Hotel for obtaining £15 by false representation. Chbistchubch, Sept. 18. At a largely attended meeting of the Christchurch Fruit-growers' Association to-night, a resolution was carried urging the importance of protection being given to the local fruit growing industry. The annual bulb and camelia show of the Christchurch Horticultural Society was held to-day. The show was very successful, the exhibits being exceedingly good. Wanganui, This Day. A fire broke out in a four roomed i bouse occupied by Fountain and owned by Gibbons. The building was gutted. Insurances on building Ll5O : furniture LIOO in the New Zealand office. Stratford, September 17. At the inquest held on Saturday on tbe body of Joseph Manning, late of Palmerton North, who was killed whilst bushfelling, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. All the dairy factoriee in the district are now open for tho season, buc owing to the scarcity pf feed the supply of milk at present is rather small, Timaru, This Day. At the inquest on Lapthorne the driver of the train said the deceased threw himself under the train. A verdiot was returned " That it was uncertain whether the act was intentional or not." The driver was exonerated.