NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 160, 9 January 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association'). Wellington, January 8 Another thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning and very heavy rain passed over the city shortly before ten o'clock tonight. Mr E. D. Hoben, who leaves by the Wakatipu on Friday to take up a position on the Sydney Daily Telegraph, was this afternoon the recipient of a handsome gold watch and chain from the staff of the Evening Post. Cekistchurch, Jan. 8. William Home, a young man admitted to the Hospital a few days ago, suffering from sunstroke, died. William Tasman Scott, aged 21 years, residing at Heathcote Valley attempted suicide this morning by cutting his throat with a razor. A bush fire at Oxford destroyed some thousands of acres of feed in the worked out bush and a large quantity of valuable timber. An empty cottage, owned by W. Wilkie, was destroyed and some sheep and cattle perished. A thunderstorm, with a heavy fall of hail and aain, passed over the city about half past five this afternoon. In the city some glass in the windows and verandahs were broken, and in the suburbs the orchards sufiered severely. Several streets were flooded. At a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Workers' Union, the fol lowing resolution was unanimously carried :- " That the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Workers' Union, numbering five hundred members send their heartiest thanks to the Hon. W. P.ißeeves for his persistent and con sistent advocacy of the cause of the workers, and beg to assure him of the Union's profound regret at the loss the labour cause of New Zealand has sustained by his departure for the Old Country." It is estimated that the N.W. gale on Saturday and Monday has reduced the promised yield of oars in North Canterbury by fully 10 bushels per acre. Dunedin, Jan. 8. A. Wilson and Co.'s warehouse was burglariously entered last night, ransacked, and tobacco to the value of ±'30 or £40 taken. Wellington, This Day. H. C. Young, a bushman, died suddenly on the road near the Upper Hutt. Haweka, Thii Day. Mr G. Hutchison addressed his constituents last evening, dealing mainly with the work of the session and condemning the appointment of politicians to the Realisation Board.