NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 253, 30 April 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

.Auckland, April 29. The Tarawera took to Sydney £6,000 worth of bullion for the National Bank. A second Brokers' Association has been formed, the entrance fee being £50. The Governor presided at the annual meeting of the Orphan Home, Parnell. Lady Augusta presented the prizes. The Native meeting at Tokaanu continues. It is estimated 1,000 Maoris are present. Nothing noteworthy has transpired. A young man named Henderson committed suicide by hanging himtelf at Me Jannett's farm, Woodhead, Raglan District. Henderson went out to inspect sheep and not returning McJannett went to look for him. He found him hanging by his neck in the house. Henderson was a native of Irvine, Ayrshire, and related to Mr Bishop, of Ponsoeby, Auckland. Chbistchuech, April 29. Messrs John Deans and W. Henderson have been appointed to represent the sheep breeders of North Canterbury on the New Zealand. Flock Book Council. New Plymouth, April 29. Two men, Timothy Cosgrove and Robert Saunders, were drowned in the Tongoporutu on Monday night, The Taranaki Herald's correspondent writes they had been attending a meeting to elect a school committee. Returning home in a canoe about half past nine they were capsized. Six other occupants of the canoe had a narrow escape. Cosgrove was a single roan and had friends in Woodville. Saunders was a widower. This Day. The body of Saunders, drov/ned at Tongoporutu on Monday, was found on Wednesday. Cusgrove's body is still missing. Wellington, April 2g. Argrument in case ol in re Dil worth was concluded in the Court of Appeal this afternoon. The Court reserved its decision. The Mamari arrived at London yesterday with her frozen meat in good order. The case of the man Livingstone, telegraphed on Monday last and for whose maintenance Huddart Parker and Co., had to enter into a bond of £100, was before the Court again to-day. Inspector Pender said no doubt the man's statement was substantially true. Livingstone asked that the medical enqniry as to his mental state should be held in fairness both to himself and the Huddart Parker Company and expressed a wish that he should be sent back to England, in which country he said ho was first confined as a lunatic, whence he was shipped to Melbourne immediately after his release from the asylum The Magistrate convicted nnd discharged him on the charge of larceny, and at the request of Inspector Pender, Livingstone will again interview Huddart Parker Co. Napier, April 29. Notwithstanding that rain fell early in the morning and the rest of the day was bitterly cold, there was an enormous attendance at the Brunner demonstration sports meeting. There was a procession about half a mile long with many tableaux. The chief open event was a two mile bicycle race won by Cattnaach. The amateur foot races 200 and 300 yards, were both won by Holder, of Wangarmi, from scratch with consummate ease. The rest of the programme was of a local character. The proceeds were about £139 making the Napier list to date about £900 A ball is being la eld this evening in aid of the fund. Palmekston N., This Day. This morning E. W. Seeker's grain store was gutted by fire. Insurance on building— £2oo in New Zealand Office ; £200 on stock in the Commercial Union. The origin of the fire is a mystery.