NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 181, 4 February 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association"). Reefton, Feb 1. Mr Ziman has floated the Welcome United Company. The present shareholders receive 24,000 £1 paid-up shares in a company of 100,000 shares, and d£15,000 working capital will be provided to develop the mine. Auckland, Feb. 1. The post office at Port Albert has been burned down and the mails destroyed. Two twin babies were found at daylight this morning on the verandah of a house in Parnell. Both were alive, and one in a weak state was brought round by restoratives. This Day John Hewson, master of the coastal steamer Waitoa, was drowned at Wairoa South last night, it is believed, while cleaning the propeller. He leaves a widow and large family. Wellington, This Day. In the SM. Court to-day judgment was given in a case in which a resident was charged with not placing a ventilator shaft to a drain at a house erected by defendant. Counsel contended the bye-law was ultra vires, and that it referred to a shaft being placed to a. sewer whereas in this case it was a drain. Mr Martin, S.M., supported the bye-law and inflicted a nominal penalty. Dunedin, February 3. At the inquest touching the death of William Martin, killed by the tram car on Saturday night, the jury returned a verdict that the death was accidental , and that there was no blame attachable to anyone. Fred T. Home was brought up today and remanded on a charge of embezzling £100 from the Dunedin Finance i aad Loan Company. Bail was granted in two sureties of £150 each. These were forthcoming, but as it was evident Home would be arrested on other charges, the bondsmen did not sign. The Cabinet re-arrangements will not be settled till Ministers return to Wellington. Mr Benjamin Kendall, steward on board tbe Corinna, were presented at the Town Hall to-day with the Royal Humane Society's silver medal and certificate for his gallantry in rescuing life at the wreck of the Wairarapa. Christchuecs, February 3. About 3600 names have been recently added to the Christchurch electoral roll, which now contains some 17,000 names. Blenheim, This Day. The mine manager of the Whakamarina Gorge claim reports that while putting in the last log of the foundation of the tail dam an average of three feet of wash-dirt was found showing line gold. Gisborne, This Day. Last month produce, principally wool and mutton, valued at £133,407, was shipped from Poverty Bay, the largest amount recorded for any single month. Napier, Febr. 3. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, J. Roulston, licensee of the Albion Hotel, was fined ±"2 and bis license endorsed for Sunday trading. Defendant, six days' previous to the offence, sold out, but the. transfer had not been signed by the Stipendiary Magistrate, and though Roulston was absent in the country when the breach of the Act was committed, ;Ue Magistrate 4ieldtwja liable. • .'