NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 272, 22 May 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

! | Per Press Assoc iation. | | Chbistchuech, May 20. The winter show of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association was opened to-day. These are upwards of 300 exhibits, and though the entries of stock are confined to a few cattle and a small number of pens of sheep, the exhibition is most interesting. A fire in Gloucester street this morning destroyed Jewel's cabinetmaker's shop, and slightly damaged the adjoining premises. There are no insurances. Auckland. May 20. The warships Orlando, Bingarooma, Katoomba and Wallaroo arrived to-day from Sydney. Constable Brooking died of blood poisoning. Mr Muir has been elected Chairman of the Board of Education. At the inquest on the body of Miss Watkics a Terdict was returned of accidental death through falling over a cliff at Waikouai. The Northern Railway League intend holding a meeting before the members leave for Wellington in order to urge upon the Auckland representatives the great desirability of pressing on the overland connection* between Auckland and Taranaki. Detective Grace, at Waihi, is collecting information re the circumstances of the death of Frank O'Neill. At the inquest on the Native, Napin, at Te Awamutu, a verdict of accidental death while under the influence of liquor was returned. «. Dunedik. May }9. A Chinaman named Ah Roy was committed fpr trial tp-day on a charge of attempted criminal assault on a girl 14 years of age. The evidence .disclosed a shocking state of immortality, Complainant said she went to accused's house with a girl 11 years old on the date of the offence alleged to have been committed, and admitted that she and two other girls went to another Chinaman's house five weeks previously. A witness, eleven years of age, admitted that she and other girls had visited five different houses occupied by Chinese. Wellington, This Pay. The Appeal Court upheld the convioof Annio Brown's case. A large number of transfers and promotions in the Post and Telegraph service have been brought about by the reduction in the rates which comes into force at the end of the month. Of 176 messengers in the service some 90 will be promoted, and many other changes take place. Waipawa, May %l. ' A man named "Richard Ward, aged 64, was found dead in an. outhouse at Waipukurau this niorniqg. The cause of death is unknown. ; , . '