NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 132, 3 December 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Pr3ss Association). Napier, This Day. The body of Alfred Williams, who was drowned near Havelock has been recovered. A subscription for the widow has realised over £60. Auckland, Deer. 2. Colebrooli's store, Coromandel, has been broken into. Over £30 in gold, and silver was taken from the safe. Henry Dnch, a young man, has been committed on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of William Miller, bootmaker, High Street. The Waihi declares a dividend of 2s per share. The May Queen monthly return is 7350zs of gold from 921 loads of quartz. The valne of the gold is 1,2048. W. Cinamon, of the scow Shamrock, while voluntarily repairing the rigging when off Cape Colviile, accidently fell off the rigging to the deck, 34 feet, and was instantaneously killed. Deceased was 45 years of age, a native of Scotland, and leaves a widow. He had been complaining of heart disease and rushing of blood to the head, ■ Invercargill, Nov. 30. J. J. Meikle, whose imprisonment for sheepsteahng and a subsequent conviction of a material witness for perjury at his instance were a matter of enquiry by the Petitions Committee of the House of Representatives (which recommended that Meikle be compensated for his imprisonment), has started lecturing on his prison experience. In his first lecture he delivered* an extraordinary diatribe against (he Justice Department, Judge Ward (who sentenced him), the Crown Prosecutor, and the Government, which, it is understood, is not inclined to compensate him for his incarceration, although willing to pay the costs of his private prosecution of the perjurer. Meikle was attired in an imitation of prison garb, and had a small son on the stage dressed as a warder.