NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 213, 12 March 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per PressiAKSociation!. Wellington, March 11. At the Horowhenua Commission the commissioners announced they could not entertain Heke's application, as the claims were disposed of by the Native Land Court judgment of 1873. The Anglican Cathedral Fund Committee has decided to purchase a site in Taranaki Street for i'7ooo. The contributions promised to the fund amount to over .£3,600, and the Rev Mr Booth has offered to give an additional .£SOO on certain conditions. The three Ministers at present in Wellington leave here to-morrow. The Premier goes to the West Coast on a visit which will probably extend over two or three weeks. The Minister of Lands will pay his promised visit to the north, calling first at Gisborne, and the Minister of Railways proceeds to Lyttelton on departmental business. Hon. Mr Cadman, who will be accompanied by Mr Ronayne, will probably return here about the end of the week. At the Supreme Court to-day the Crown Prosecutor entered a nolle prosegui in the case of Peter Stephen, an Assyrian, charged with perjury. Cessari Perroti, an Italian, was charged with having attempted to murder Gaetano Russo, and (2) attempted to do him actual bodily harm. Accused and prosecutor are both fishermen, and Perotti is supposed to have had a grievance, because Russo and his brother would not supply him with fish. The jury found accused not guilty, and he was discharged. This Day. Judge Ward will hold an enquiry into the suicide at the Ashburnham Asylum. Auckland, This Day. In the decision come to by the Amal gamated Society of Railway Servants the rates of pay hitherto in force are principally adverted to, as the Society wish to avoid asking for any increase tiil the colony's finances improve. Park, charged with stealing .£442 while postmaster at Taupo, having forfeited his retiring allowance, was admitted to probation for twelve months. Dunedin. March 11. In the case of E. A. Tapper v. the New Zealand Accident Insurance Co., a claim for i-96, judgment was given for .£lB, with costs. Tapper had been insured with the Company since 1891, and when leaving for England he took out a whole world risk. While in London he fell when about to get into an omnibus and injured his shoulder.