NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 142, 14 December 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Wellington, December 13. Capt. Fairchild's departure for London has been postponed until 16th January. The warship Goldfinch Bailed for Akaroa this afternoon. The annual ballance sheet of the Gear Meat Co , after making allowance for depreciation, leaves L 8363 to be apportioned. A ten per cent dividend ia paid, absorbing L 4600, and L 3763 is carried forward. The reserve and insurance funds aggregate L 25.705. Chbistchurch, Dec. 13. At the Supremo Court to-day, Justice Denniston granted an order directing the the issue of a writ of certiorari to mem- j bers of the Licensing Committee for i the district of Inbngahna, to quash the decision of |the Committee granting a license to David Hugh Alexander in respect of the Albion Hotel, Bridge- street, Reefton, Auckland, Dec- 14. The body found on the beach at Par- 1 engarenga, has been identified as that of Wm.'Alfred Switzer, a laborer, 22 years old. He had been in ill health and despondent. He was last seen alive on the gum fields. A verdict of death from natural causes, accelerated by exposure, was returned. He had been practically eaten by pigs. He had been lying on the beach six weeks. The body of a man found in tbe Waikato at Huntly has been identified as F. G. Taylor, farmeir, of Ngaruawahia. . He was an old resident. Several of bis brothers are residing in Auckland. John Latham, an old soldier of the 65th, a gum digger, was burned to death in bis whare at Te Whati, neat Bawene