NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 116, 14 November 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦- • (Per Press Association). Hawera, Nov. 13. Mr George Maule, an old Canterbury settler, died here last night, aged 64. Ciiristchuuch, Novr. 13. A heavy hailstorm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, passed over the Oxford district .yesterday afternoon. No damage is reported. Wellington, This Day. A young woman named Mary Davis, was charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning with child murder, and remanded till Monday, and sent back to the hospital. Heavy rain fell this morning but cleared off towards noon. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Bowing Association was held last night, when delegates were present representing nearly every club belonging to the Association. Napieb, Nov. 13. Joseph Reuben Masley, about 35 years of age, hanged himself this morning in an outbuilding adjoining his residence at Hastings. Deceased was in regular employment at Tomoana. He came out of the Napier Hospital recently and since then has been in a very despondent state. He leaves a wife and five children. 1 A man named Waller Willoughby, carpenter, while attempting to cross the line in front of the late train from Daneyirke, was knocked clown and very serionsly injured. He was removed to the hospital. Auckland, Nov. 12. Jas. A. Sinclair, an ex public school teacher, took a fit on the road returning from a meeting at Otahubu and was found on the road side at six o'clock in the morning, but expired. The Auckland Technical school now numbers 226 students of both sexes. The New Salvation Army Home for women, consisting of 21 rooms, was opened by the Mayor. The barque Kathleen Hilda, from Newcastle, reports that the second mate Ellis Thomas Free, was washed overboard. He was neyer seen again. He was a single man and a Dative of Adelaide. He had no relatives in the colony. At a meetiDg of insurers at Tanranga a resolution was carried that the present premiums charged were excessive* An agreement was signed pledging the meeting to support ft company of good standing that will break down the present tariff. mmmmmmmmmmmmm^ mm^ m