NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 121, 20 November 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦ (Per Press Association). Auckland, Nov. 18. The Government steamer Stella has been purchased by Leyland and O'Brien for about £'1500. The residence of Mr H. Box, Otahuhn, j was burned down Parly tbis Dooming, j The house and fnmiture were insured for | £300 in the National, and a valuable j library was insured in the Royal. In the Auckland School of Music the Glasgow medals were awarded — Senior division, J. H Gittos ; junior division, Miss Ida Button. Mr J. J. Holland has been re-elected Mayor of Auckland for a third time. Mr Theo Cooper left for Wellington in connection with the Midland Railway arbitration. Jas. Druingoll, of Tuakau, won the Gillies University scholarship. The Sinclair scholarship was not awarded, the examiners not considering the work of the candidates of sufficient merit. The Government steamer Stella, which was lately employed towing on the coast, has beeu solcl through the Collector of Customs to Messrs Jagger and Parker and Messrs Leyland and O'Brien, the well-known sawmill proprietors of this city for about £1500. She will continue in the towing business, principally towing rafts of logs down the coast to Auckland. Dunedin, Nov. 19. At the annual meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Company, the Chairman, in moving adoption of report recommended a dividend of 4 per cent .per half year, making 8 per cent the year, and said the balance-sheets were becoming of a stereotyped character. The over- draft has been reduced by £13,609. The directors have worked the mills so as to add as little as possible to the stock, and the soundness of the policy was shown by the profit and loss account being £11,526 better than last year. At the inquest on Sue Cot, the Chinaman who shot at two women and a man at the Chinese camp, Lawrence, and then shot himself, a verdict was returned tbat deceased died from gunshot wounds, but tbat there was no evidence to show by whom inflicted. Hawera, Nov. 19. Messrs Major and Sutton have been nominated for the Mayoralty. Masterton, Nov. 19. Shearing operations, whicb were sua* pended for three weeks, are to be resumed on Brancepath Station tbis week. There are some splendid trout in the Waingawa River. A Masterton resident secured six on Sunday which aggregated a weight of over 201 b. About 1300 bales of wool have been despatched from Masterton railway station ao far tnis season. The timber traffic from Masterton is assuming large dimensions. During the four weeks ending November 9th no less than 145,000 ft was sent away. Christchurch, This Day. Iv Hales' case the jury were unable to agree, and a fresh trial was ordered.