NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 13 March 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Napier, March 12. Capt. Hughes, of the barquentine Glide, was to-day fined £25 and costs for breaking the seal of bonded goods within the prescribed limits. The vessel was being towed out when she struck on a mud bank after leaving the wharf, but before ahe touched be broke the seal of the ship's stores. A boy named Martin, son of a fisherman, fell off the Port Ahuriri bridge while walking along the top rail and was drowned. The Minister for Lands arrived here to-day intending to go to Wairoa, but the bar is bad there, so he goes on to Gisborne. Dunedin, March 12. Janet Kay, 64 years, a resident of Woodhaugh, is supposed to have committed suicide by taking poison. She bad been drinking with a married daughter, with whom she had words. The daughter alleges deceased had a quarrel with her son, and exclaiming, " this will be the last of me," drank a solution of Rough on Rats. The daughter administered an emetic, but her mother died next morning. At an inquest on the woman Janet Kay, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased poisoned herself by taking •' Bough' on Rats" while temporarily insane. Auckland, March 12. The Marramarra, a wooden steamer of 45 tons register, recently bought in Sydney by a New Plymouth gentleman, has arrived in the Manukau after a paßsage of seven days. The steamer Rakaia has left tor Wellington, but returns next week when she will be floated into Calliope Dock. At the Wesieyan Conference to-day, the Rev. J. S. Rishworth was placed on the permanent supernumerary list. The recommendation of the Wellington district in favor of a seperate district synod for Maori work in the North Island was lost. This Day. At the Railway Servants' Conference considerable discussion arose re platelayers' wages. It was proposed to make some alterations in porters 1 wages ; otherwise there was no inclination to make any change in the existing rates of wages in the railway service.