NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 63, 11 September 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

• (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, Sept. 10. The Rev. E. R. Otway, curate at Lincoln, died somewhat suddenly yesterday morning. His health had been bad for some time, but he seemed better after his recent trip to England, and his death was unexpected. The foundation stone of the new ward at the hospital the cost of which was bequeathed by the late Hytuan Marks, was laid this afternoon. The total co3t will be about LB.OOO. This Day. Mrs Partridge, wife of A. Partridge, accountant, was found on the floor of her bedroom with her nightdress on fire. She v.iis staying at Mrs Popo's nursing home for treatment for influenza. She was removed to the hospital and died. She was 28 years of age. C. H. Parker, commission agent and bailiff for many years in Christchurch, %vas found doad in his officQ at 8.15 a.m. to day. He had apparently taken poison in an orange. A letter in his pocket addressed to bis wife states: " This is best, and the only thing for me. lam mad." Wellington, Sept. 10. The barque Coroinandel suffered considerable damage when she sank again the other day and the decks show signs of bursting, in which case pumping operations will be of little avail in a further aU tempt to raise her. The Cathedral fund now amounts to L 4116. Reefton, Sept. 9. The Conciliation Court sat to-day to adjudicate on the wages dispute between the Consolidated Company and the Miners' Union. After neyeral hours' sitting, the following decision waß given : — The rate of wages to be fixed at — miners 9s per day ; truckers, surface and battery hands 8s per day ; and shift " bosses," 11s 8d per day of eight hours' work. The Bench recommended the officers of the union to call a meeting of the members for to-morrow night to agree to accept the finding of the Board. Nklson, Sept. 10. The jubilee of the Loyal Howard Lodge of Oddfellows was celebrated to-night and the proceedings were of a brilliant and gratifying nature. Duxedin, Sept. 10. Walter Clark, aged 42, a single man, a rabbiter, was drowned in the T&ieri river at Hyde yesterday. The body has not been recovered. Auckland, September 10. A new trial has been granted in the case Sheehan v. City Council, in which the plaintiff got L 125 damages for the loss of a son drowned in the City Baths. The question of costs was reserved. GISBORNE, Sept. 10. The Borough Council has framed the proposals to be submitted to the ratepayers with reference to the proposed water supply for Gisborne. The amount to be borrowed is set down at LIB,OOO. The ballot for 17 sections in the Waiinari block recently purchased by the Government was held to-day. The sections range from 5 to 70 acres, and there were about fiO applirints. Only 10 of the sections, however, were taken up .