NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 94, 17 October 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦ (Per Press Association.) Woodville, This Day. A slight shock of earthquake was felt at 6.15 this morning. [This was also felt in Feilding. | Napier, Oct. 16. A swagger named Rosa is supposed to be drowned, his clothes and effects being found on the backs of the Tntaekuri. His brother was sent to tbe asylum last week and he was suffering from melancholia. Wellington. Oct. 16. At a meeting of tbe Council of the Middle District of the University College the motion that an application be invited from the honorary lecturers was negatived, tbe meeting expressing an opinion that it would be better until they were in a position to pay the lecturers. It was decided again to communicate with the Government regarding endowments. Auckland, October 16. Thomas Wood has been committed for trial on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of Sin Kee with intent to commit theft. The schooner Christina has been floated off Kangitoto reef, and towed into harbour between two scows. A young man named Thomas Tinley, for disturbing the entertainment of the Tivoli Company last night, and addressing insulting remarks to the performers, was fined 40s, but having no money was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. For drunkenness^ he was fined 40s, or seven days' imprisonment. At the Police Court two men, Thomas Smith and Anthony Hopewood, stowaways by tbe Tarawera from Sydney, were fined 40s, or 14 days' bard labor. Smith made some unpleasant remarks on His Worship's ruling, and Mr Northcroft ordered him to be brought back, and asked h|m what he had said. Accased sa|d fre bad pnly remarked that he wanted wqrk, and npw he bad got it. His Worship said he had a good mind to increase the fine and the term of imprjsonnoept.