NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 104, 30 October 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[j ; (Per Press Association.) Chsistchcrch, October 29. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, George , Fuller, a former member of the Fire . Brigade, was charged with the larcency of ten pairs of trowsers, the property of I the brigade. He was remanded to Friday, k bail being allowed. An appeal has been lodged against the 3 decision of Mr H. W. Bishop in the (Jhristchurch Magistrate's Court, dismies- . ing an information laid by the police t against ?. C. Neil and Co., of Dunedin, l for alleged breach of the Gaming and Lotteries Act by issuing coupons in packets j of tea and offering prizes to persons who (; returned the largest number of coupons. r The appeal will be heard before Mr Juatt ice Denniston on Monday next. Adckland, October 29. j Owing to the ship Rathdown coming to port in distress, the harbour charges were t modified. With the docking, the amount 3 coming to the Harbour Board is JL4OO. The vessel comes out of the dock to-mor-mow, ready to resume her voyage. The Anglican Synod was opened today by Bishop Cowie. He said more (. clergy were needed, and as tnere was 6 little hope of getting them from Engl land they would have to train them in j. the Colony. , Wellington, This Day. } Brown and his wife were remanded j for a week on the charge of procuring i abortion. b The inquiry into the collision between , the Flora and the Wakatipu at the j Wellington Heads, will b 6 held on the return of the Wakatipu from Sydney. 1 Dunedin, This Day. | The body found in the harbor is identified as that of Wm. McLaren, butcher, South Dunedin. He was married with eight children. New Plymouth, October 30. James Mitchelson, gardener, wellknown throughout New Zealand died ! suddenly last night of heart disease. A man named Robert McCrae died suddenly at Dunne's Hotel, Balclutha, J yesterday. , At the annual meeting of the Presby- , terian Synod, the Rev D. Borrie was \ elected Moderator.