NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 10, 11 July 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

_#. (Per Press Association). Auckland, July 9. A skeleton, discovered at Waemuku, beyond Waitakerei, is supposed to be that of a Maori chief named Hoete, who disappeared about 20 years ago. Hoete was the father of the Key. Wirinaa Hoete, a Maori clergyman at Rewita. An accident befel a bushman residing at Tiki Hill, Coromandel ; name unknown. During the heavy gals last night a tree fell on his whare, which thereupon took fire. The man escaped by crawling out, and was picked up this morning and taken to the hospital. The Rugby Union meeting to consider to bold practice matches with the idea of the selection of representatives to play against Queensland, decided that the practice match be held shortly. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, W. G. Basset was charged with aiding and abetting Kirby to escape. Detectiye Jones, of Sydney, gave evidence. Accused was committed for trial, bail being allowed in two sureties of £250 each. Roland Todd, an ex-commercial traveller, attempted suicide to-night. He was despondent through want of employment. Invercargill, July 6. Crossing the straight from Stewart Island to the Bluff yesterday a man named John Iggs, who had been behaving in an eccentric manner, jumped overboard from the a.s. Despatch, Fortunately the craft is very quick on her helm, and Captain Lowell soon had her round and picked the man up. He was brought before a Justice to-day and remanded for a week. Igga is said to have been drin&ing heavily. Losses of stock by the recent floods about tht Makarewa district are heavy. Christchurch, July 9. At the Rev. L. M. Isitt's meeting tonight a strongly worded resolution, proposed) by the Rev. F. W. Isitt, commenting upon the action of the Premier, Colonel Hume, and Mr Stanford, S.M., in regard to the application by Lawliss ex-constable, for a publican's license, was passed. This Day. A young Maori named Josiah Whitau suicided owing to the parents of a young half-caste girl to whom he had proposed, refusing to give their sanction as the girl is under age. Deceased first asked the girl to allow him to shoot her, promising to destroy himself. She persuaded him against this, but later on a shot was heard, and his body found. Wellington, July 10. Mrs Sharp, relict of Capt. Sharp, died to-day, aged 87 years. She arrived here in 1841. This Day. . Judge Edwards enters on his duties next week. Mr Loughnan of Napier, and Mr M orison, of Wellington, take over his practice. Dunedin, July 9. Phillips, licensee of the Gladstone Hotel where a street brawl on Saturday originated, was fined £5 and the license endoraed for permitting rowdyism in hie hotel. At the coursing meeting (second round) Lynn Regis beat Wallace, Faster and Faster beat King Lear, and Deceit beat Castorina. The council of the Otago Law Society passed a resolution congratulating Mr W. B. Edwards on his elevation to the Supreme Court Bench. The Harbor Board's second experiment I of raising money locally has been a pronounced success. Tenders were opened to-day for the purchase of 28 debentures of LIOO each with a currency of 38 years, bearing 5 per cent interest. Five tenders were repeived, the total amount offered being L7BOO at premiums ranging from 15s 6d to L9. One tenderer received the lot at LlO9. There was one offer for the lot at LlO5.