NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 31 January 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Pkbss Association). Auckland, January 29. Through the exertions and appeals of the Rev. 0. H. Yattman, the New York evangelist, L 2350 has been wiped off the debs of the V.M.C.A. in a week, two thirds being contributed by the business men. A Maori lad named Neaha, working at the bush in Cabbage Bay, was crushed fatally while logs were being jacked. The house of Mrs Larch, of Hazelton, occupied by Mrs Drury, was burned down. The house was insured in the New Zealand for £120 and the furniture in the South British tor LIOO. The s.s. Rangatira left to-day for Gisborne. She took in 4000 carcases of frozen muttton. Some anxiety is felt regarding the schooner Clansman, from Dunedin to this port. The vessel is now 34 days out. According to a telegram received by Mr M. Niccol from Captain Smith, of the schooner Annie Hill, the Clansman was seen off Armuri Bluff, about 50 miles north of Lyttelton,. on December 28th. Later. The schooner Clansman, from Dunedin, about whom some anxiety was felt, has put in to Awanui. Wellington, Jan. 30. A man named William Davies, a carpenter, 31 years of age, was arrested tonight on a charge of bigamy. He is alleged to have married a young woman in October last while his first wife was still living. This Day. The application of Brown, sentenced to 18 years' for an illegal operation, for a new trial was refused. A girl named Mary Vambiradzzi, aged 17, a servant of the Ormestein's, Lower Hutt, is missing. She left a note that she intended to commit suicide in the rivar. The police are searching. The steamer Waitapu which struck on the Patea bar was placed on the slip when it was found her rudder was gone and the stern post started. Napiek, This Day. In the game between the Manawatu and Gisborne polo teams, the former won by 10 goals to nil. Dunedin, Jan. 30. At a meeting of the Dunedin Fanciers Club tonight the ballot papers in connection with the head-quarters of the Kennel Ulub were opened. ItwasfooDd that two clubs had voted for Dunedin and two for Wellington. The president said he would take time to consider before giving his casting vote. While Sir Walter Buller was in Christchurch he purchased three moa skeletons, the choicest of , those already given to the Imperial Institute. The series will then be larger than that in British museum. . Mrs Margaret Graham, 63 .years of who was severely hurned on the 14th inst, by her apron catching fire, pro : grossed iovorably until blood poisoning set in and she died. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death -was re r turned. ' • ... ".'>;•-■■- ' „