NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 209, 7 March 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Auckland, March 6. The Sydney bowling team Jei'c by the Manap r 'iu'i for Sj'dney. There has bepn a considerable demand within the last few days for mining properties to place on foreign markets. Among these are the Native Chief (Tiki), which has been sent to South Africa, the Golden Tokatea to Liverpool, and the Mount Anrum to London, all of which have been definitely under offers. Three offers have been received for the Golden Anchor, which now includes the Jessica, but the directors have refused them on the ground that they will first develop them and offer them to foreign financiers. Napikr, March 6. Mrs H. Hill, wife of the Inspector of Schools has been appointed a member of the Licensing Committee in place of the late Mr H. S. Tifien. Mrs Hill was next to the successful candidate at the licensing poll. She is a prohibitionist. A writ for libel has been served on the Deiiy Telegraph by the Hawke's Bay Herald for stating that the latter is under the thumb of a bogus philanthropist. It has beeu decided to establish cooking; classes at the Girls' H i«h School. Chkistciiuhch, March 5. The Rev. A. Brittaiu, of the Melanesian Mission, whose headquarters are at Norfolk Island, gives a genera) denial to the statement made by Mr Oliver given in tha cable from Sydney, concerning the moral condition of ths people on that island, while the local administration of justice is bad, the eyilw generally are such as are more or loss inevitable in an isolated community. Dtjnedin, March 6. The New Zealand Boot Manufacturers' Association today fitad notice in the Supreme Court alleging that the statements in the notice lodged in the Sunreme Court by or on behalf of the Dunedin Operative Bootmokers' Union are incorrect. Wanganui, March 6. An elderly man named Harry Simpson fell over a bank alongside the bridge, near the river and was killed. Nelson, March 6. In the case Fanzelow v. John Kerr, of Lake Station, an action for £550 damages for malicious prosecution on a charge of sheep-stealing, the jury found for the plaintiff Fanzelow for .£3OO t damages. Leave was given to apply for a nonsuit on the ground that the police, and not Kerr, prosecuted.