NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 184, 7 February 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Dunedin, February 6. A telegram from the Premier was read at the Medical Congress to-day, stating that the road to Mount Cook ■was in good order for. travellers, and that a guide would be in readiness for medicos who proposed to undertake the journey over. has been collected for the proposed memorial to the late Bishop Moran. Auckland, February 6. A fire at Puketi destroyed Wm. Clark's store and dwelling. The building was owned by L. D. Nathan and Co., and insured in the Norwich Union for .£3OO, and the contents £385. It is supposed the origin was sparks from a defective chimney. An inquest was held on a single woman named Annie Best at Waihi owing to the evidence of Mrs Thome, midwife. Drs Forbes and Wright were called in but were unsuccessful in saving life. The inquest was adjourned to obtain an analysis of the stomach. It is rumoured the girl died from the effects of medicine taken to procure abortion. Christchurch, Feb. 6. Yesterday a girl 5£ years old, named Thursa Workman was drowned through falling through the sleepers of the Railway bridge into the Waimakirifi at Stewart's Gully. A girl, 11 years old, was with her, but could not save her. Wellington, Feb. 5. The Railway Department received word to-day that the bridge over Oreti, near Lnmsden is on fire. It is supposed it was caused by a grass fire. Men have been dispatched to extinguish the flames. The bridge is an iron girder construction of considerable size. There are some 1300 candidates at the yearly teachers' examinations, the results of which will be known in about a fortnight. The newly appointed produce expert in London is Henry Gray, who was for some years connected with trade in Christchurch and has latterly been with the firm of Coly & Co., in London, He has sent several reports at times to the Agricultura.l Department on New Zealand produce. At the Congregational Union, G. Fowles, of Auckland, read a paper on advocating the abolition of rent for land. He took the ground that all had equal rights to the possession of the soil. There was an animated discussion on the paper, but no action was taken by the meeting Tne annual sesßion of the Congregational Union opened tins morning, and after transacting formal business adjourned until to-morrow. The warship Katoomba, en route from Auckland to Akaroa, called to-dtiy to take on four seamen who had been invalided. She lefc again fo-nisrht; for Aknroa.