NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 32, 6 August 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association). Wellington, August 5. The barque George Thompson, which put into Wellington disabled last year and caused a considerable amount of trouble, sold in Glasgow for L 750. At the inquest on Mr Hayes, a verdict of accidental drowning was returned, as there was nothing in the evidence which tended to show other than an accident, deceased had once before slipped into the water at the same place, and had a narrow escape. Arbor day waa formally celebrated by the planting of trees on the Thorndon esplanade. There was a large attendance, The custom is largely growing of buying plants and flowers for children to sec in private gardens on this day, In aentenoing Heroaer Weisner of Feilding convicted of incest, the Chief Justice ordered bun to be imprisoned with hard labour for the lull term allowed by the law, ten years. Dunedin, August 5. Although kept as a holiday little or nothing was done in the matter of observing Arbor Day. Christchurcu, August 5. A thief entered some bedrooms at Warner's hotel last night and stole L2l in notes from the pocket-book of one of lodgers and L 5 lQs in gold from that of another. To-day being Arbor day, some treeplanting was done by the school children at New Brighton, but there was no other celebration of the occasion. Auckland, August 6. In a brothel case Mr Northcroft sentenced husband and wife to a month's imprisonment, four of the children are to be sent to the Parnell Home, two to Burnham, and a fifth, a girl, has been ' taken care of by the Rescue Society. ' Mr Nothcroft addressed the landlord, and told him that in future he would give any landlord of such premises three months' imprisonment without the ! option of a fine. WoODVILLE, AugUSt 5. ' Through the instrumentality of Mr Hall, M.H.R. for Waipawa, a telephone wire is to be erected batween Woodville and Mabarahara, thp Road Board be- < coming responsible for the cost of pan- | struction. !