NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 105, 31 October 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, Oct. 30. An amalgamation scheme has been agreed upon between WaitekauriNo. 5 and 6 and the Globe (a total of 103 acres) with a view to flotation in the London market with a capital of i-80,000. An enthusiastic meeting in connection with the cultivation of sugar beet was held at Hamilton to-day. Messrs Lewenberg, Douglas and Graham were present. 147 acres were guaranteed by those present, and a committee was appointed to canvass the district for signatures for the necessury guarantee, 2500 acres. A decision has been given by Justice Connolly in favour of the Loan and Mercantile Company for a large and valuable block, the Maungatutahi, 5491 acres. The lands registrar had refused to register the transfer to the company owing to alleged legal restrictions. Christchurch, October 30. C. A. Denby, for 47 years a resident of Canterbury and for a number of years in the employ of the Provincial |Government and subsequently the Railway Department, died yesterday. At the Magistrate's Court to-day "Benjamin Hale was charged with a breach of the Bankruptcy Act in obtaining advances from the Union Bank by means of false sheets. He was committed for trial and he was also committed on the charge of not keeping proper books ot accounts. The New South Wales cricket team leave Sydney on December Bth direct for Wellington and play Canterbury on December 14th, 16th, 17th; Otago, December 20th, 21st, 23rd; Wellington, December 26th, 27th, 28th. DUNEDIN, Oct. 80. The Directors of the National Insurance Company recommend the payment of a dividend of nine pence per Bhare for the half-year ended 30th inst. Invercargili., October 30. Mr J. W. Kelly, M.H.R., who returned from Wellington to-day, was met at the station by about 300 persons, and escorted, headed by a band, to the rotunda, where an album containing a congratulatory address signed by 300 persons was presented to him by the Mayor. This evening Mr Kelly was entertained at a " social."