NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Wellington, July 13. Edwin Charles Evans, chemist, died suddenly, aged 68. Auckland, July 13. At the Police Court bookmakers named Tobias?, McLeod, Cleland, and assistants McHattie and Doig were fined £5 5s and costs for keeping premises for betting 1 purpoges. ' The carpenters and joiners of Auck< land Sire moving for 9s a day instead oi the present rates, Bs. They gave the Builders Association three months notice. A man named Richmond, of Rukuhia station, dropped dead to-day. 1 The College for girls was opened as an adjunct to the Methodist Prince Albert College by the Mayor. It cos! £2000. The proprietors of the Elite Minstrel Company were fined 5s and 2s costs foi using a child, aged 4 years, in a public performance at the Opera House, being a breach of the Childs' Protection Act. Defendants pleaded guilty, but said they were ignorant of the existence oi the Act. This Day. C. Brookes, a retired bootmaker, shot himself through the heart. He has been suffering from mental depression, probably the result of a fistula. A fire broke out in the engine room of the small paddle steamer Te Aroha on her way from Paeroa to Auckland. Six hands and one passenger got the fire out after two hours hard work. The engine room gutted was the only damage done. Christchurch, July 13. Mr H. R. Webb was to-day re-elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College. The Board set up a special committee to consider bills affecting the College now before Parliament and to take such steps in relation thereto as it might think fit. Dunedin, This Day. John Blair, who represented Caversham in Provincial Council, contests the Clutha seat. At a meetine of the Acclimatisation Society the manager reported that 10,000 salmon ova allotted to Otago and Southland had arrived in splendid condition. It wns decided to snpply deer if possible to Wellington, the Society to arrange the actual cost of capture. Napier, This Day. W. Heslop, of Omaranui, is out for the Waiapn seat.