NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 279, 1 June 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

O iPer Press Association.! Auckland, May 30. Tbe Hon. J. McKenzie is still weak, but will deliver bis promised address on Monday evening. The Governor ancl Vice Regal party left to day for Otorohanga and Rotorna. From Rotorua the Governor goes via Taupo and Napier to Wellington. The Whangaratia creamery has been burned down. It was the property of the farmers of the district. The fire is supposed to be due to inceudiarism, aud the police are investigating. The insurance is £100 in the South British office. S. Whitlaw's store at Hikurangi was destroyed by fire last night. It was occupied by Cromwell aud Bell as a general store. The fire was caused by the accidental upsetting of a lamp. Insurances — tbe building £125 in the ■ Victoria ; stock £250 iv the Manchester Companj'. The loss is considerable. The warship Orlando is being over- * hauled in Calliope Lock. This morning the cruiser Katoomba left for Lyttelton, where she goes into , dock. H.M.S. Wallaroo left for Fiji this morniug. Last night a young woman named Margaret Parnell was walluDgon Queenstreet Wharf, when she suddenly left her companion, a young man, and i jumped into the water. She was rescued with some difficulty by Constable ; Oliphant. ; The Auckland Chamber of Commerce supports the Melbourne Chamber of , Commerce in its resolution protesting i against the proposed increase of dock j charges on goods landed over the side | , in the port of London. i Dunedin, May 31. ; Hugh Mcßride, of Greenstone, is missing. He is supposed to be drowned at Lake Wakatipu. Wellington, May 30. The Marine Department has been informed that the steamer Marramarra, 45 tons, recently purchased in Australia by the Mokau Coal Company, has gone ashore eight miles south of Opunake, ' and is likely to became a total wreck. : The crew landed at Opunake at 1 o'clock 1 tbis morning. Tbe Marramarra was a 1 wooden screw steamer of 30 horse power built in Sydney in 1684.