NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 131, 2 December 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Nafier, This Day. At a public meeting at West Glive it was resolved to forward a petition to the Government, asking for the purchase for settlement purposes of the Whakatane estate owned by E. P. Williams, containing 732 acres. Wellington, Novr. 80. Sir P. Buckley bavins accepted tbe judgeship has retired from tbe legal firm be was so long associated with and the partaership bas been dissolved. Instead of Buckley, Stafford, and Treadwell, it will now be Stafford, Treadwell and Field. Thos. Williams, a seaman on the barque Alice, was arrested on a charge of wounding Thomas Henry Hughes an apprentice on the ship Pleione. The affair arose .out of a row shortly after midnight. Hughes was stabbed in five places, but none of the wounds are serious. Hawera, Tbis Day. The Hon. P. Reeves was here on Saturday night. He was waited on by a deputation of local builders, who asked that public buildings be erected by contract instead of by co-operative labour. Mr Reeves promised to refer the matter to Wellington. Gisborne, Nov. 30. Horatio Nelson Jones, hotelkeeper, dropped dead in the back yard of the hotel. The cause is supposed to be heart disease. Invercargill, Nov. 30. At the Police Court to-day a well known farmer was charged under the Licensing Act with having been found on licensed premises, being a prohibited person. The defence was that he went to the hotel for luggage. The police stated he bad been in a drunken state in town for several days. The Magistrate imposed a fine of 5s and costs.