NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 186, 10 February 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association"!. Wellington, Feb. 9. Mr Wm. Booth, a prominent citizen, has intimated his willingness to donate to 1 the city a siie valued at LSOO in Newtown for a free public library and also LSOO for 1 the purchase of books if the City Council erects a suitable and permanent bnildiug. The Council will consider the question later on. Auckland, February 9. . : At Helensville, a firo, at 0 a.m. Dei stroyed the town hall, a nine roouied house, two small cottages and two sheds. The hall was owned by the Town Hall Company and was insured in the Imperial for L4OO. The other buildings were uninsured. The two cottages belonged to the i National Bank, and the shed 3to Hand's i estate. The sharemarket continues steady, • no doubt in sympathy with that of I London, which, according to the recent i cables advices, is steadily improving. • Several enquiries have been received by cable from London during the week : for suitable mining properties. I Dunedin, February 8. i The Taieri paper reports the finding • of a reef six miies from Berwick, which ' is estimated to yield 'over 2oz to the ton. The new cool chambers erected at • Port Chalmers by the Dock Trust were 1 formally opened yesterday afternoon by the Hon. John McKenzie. There is a ! Hercules icing machine, and a chamber I able to hold 370 tons dairj' prrduce or l 5000 sheep. i Masterton, This Day. ! A bush fire was started in Mr Handy--1 side's run on Friday, since when a cadet named Oswald has been missing. A search party, including constables at Tenui and Herbertville, set out took for the man, and his remains were found today, very much charred.