NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 77, 27 September 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Napier, September 25, The i s. Australia, whilst attempting to land timber at Waimarama, graced a bidden rock, and Captain Oibb, deeming the anchorage unsuitable for the Australia, returned to port. The injury ia only slight, but the vessel will be examined in Wellington. Auckland, Sept. 26. At an inquest on the body of Isaac Wilcox, who died at the hospital, a verdict from pneumonia and pleurisy, accelerated by partially cutting his throat while in an unsound state of mind, was returned. He had been drinking heavily, and had been going about for a week with two ribs broken, the result of a fall. Wellington, Sept. 26. The body of a waiter named F. Conchman, aged 25, married, *a< found floating in the harbour to-day. He had been in ill-health for some time. At a meeting of the City Council tonight it was decided to make a further grant to the unemployed fund of £230. This makes a total of £750 for this winter. It was decided that 69 additional electric lights be placed in the city, the Mayor stating with these and when the steam power is used for driving the dynamos, Wellington will be the best lighted city in the Australian colonies. It was resolved that the salary of the future Mayors be 200 guineas instead of 100 as at present. Dunedin, Sept. 26. Lister, proprietor of the Workman, was committed for trial to-day for alleged criminal libel on Adams, solicitor. Invkbcargill, September 29. At the Supreme Conrt, Louisa Violet Poole pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted abortion on herself, and was sentenced fo Qne months jispi'isonment. This Day. Patterson was sentenced to 10 years for rape, the Judge pointing out if the child had been under 10 years he could have been sentenced to life. Out of regard for his family he would not order a flogging. Chbistchurch, September 20. A man named William Attndge, who was sentenced in Lyttelton in July last to nine months' imprisonment for obscene language, was released last week after serving two months, the severity of the sentence having been brought under the notice of the Justice Department.