NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 295, 19 June 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

I Per Press Association. I Invercaegill, June 18. Alfred Beaven, farmer, aenounces bis candidature for Awnrua, (the ex-colonial Treasurer's constituency. He is a pro* Donnced prohibitionist. Dunedin. June 18. The infant child of Mr John Wright, junr., of Bishopscourt was smothered. Its parents are journeying to Sydney. The girl? concerned in tbe recent prosecutions of tbe Chinamen, have been committed to an Industrial School. Wellington, June 18. At a meeting of the Cathedral Committee it was announced tbe sum promised for the New Cathedral was nearly L4OOO, of which LSOO was already received. Bishop Wallis said another illOO was required before tbe committee could get Mr Booth's second donation, and a committee was appointed to canvas for subscriptions. The appointment of Jas. MacFarlaae as Hawaiian Consul at Auckland is recognised. Mr F. G. B. "Waldegraye, Under Secretary for Justice has been gazetted a member of the Civil Service Officers' Guarantee Board. Mr Hastwell, chief engineer of tbe steamer Tasmania, has been appointed mechanical engineer in charge of the pumping machinery in connection with drainage works. There were over 42 applicants. The salary is £240 per annum. Surgeon-Captains Collins, Connelly, Thomas and Coughtrey, of the New Zealand Volunteers, have been promoted Surgeon-Majors. - The arrivals in the colony for May were 1060 ; of these 521 came from New South Wales, 246 from Victoria, and 278 from tbe United Kingdoms. Tbe departures were 1600, of whom 888 went to Mew South Wales, 305 to United Kingdom, and 257 to Viotoria. 27 Chinese arrived and 13 departed. Auckland, This Day. A man named Foster was killed by a railway engine when walking on the line to his residence, near Te Aroha. He was 70 years of age, a Norwegian, and leaves a wife and family.