NEWZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1896, Page 2

NEWZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, Oct. _. News has been received of the somewhat unexpected death of Dr Meadows, of Sheffield. A meeting of railway employes discussed the Railway Classification Bill and expressed a desire that it should pass this session subject to certain alterations in the schedule. The alterations suggested will be forwarded to the Minister. The Christchurch Builders' Society have approved of the recommendation of the Labour Bills Committee to strike out clauses 9 to 18 of the Wages Protection Bill. The Canterbury Trades and Labour Council resolved to support William Cullen as labour candidate for Christchurch. This Day. In response to a requisition containing 800 signatures the Hon W. Rolleston has consented to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for the Riccarton seat. Auckland, Oct. 5. Walter Woodcock has been committed for trial for wilfully maiming the horse, " Port Albert." The horse was shot in several places and one eye was destroyed. It is reported from Coromandel that specimens of etone are being obtained from a leader intersected in the shaft at a depth of 920 feet in the Kapanga claim. Count Jonrffroy d'Abbans, ConsulGeneral for France in New Zealand, has forwarded to tbe French Government by the Frisco mail a report on the goldfields. He states there are a number of French investors in the Waihi, Waitekauri and May Queen mines. New Plymouth, October 5. Mr C. E. Bellringer (Independent Liberal) opened the election campaign for the Hawera seat to-night, and received a vote of thanks. Invercargill, October 5. The remains of an old man named Duncan Fergusson, who had boen missing for three weeks, were found today near the road leading from Hedgehope to Mataura. He had been dead for a considerable time. Ferguson was brought bofore the Court here in June on a charge of attempted suicide, but the Grand Jury threw out the bill. A farmer named Peter Allan, whose disappearance some weeks back caused the police to make enquiries as to his whereabouts, returned to nis home at Wairio on Saturday night on foot. He said he had been to Canterbury. Dunedin, October 5. John Blyth, aged 71, au old settler at Owake, was found dead at bis lodgings in Dunedin yesterday. He had suffered from heart disease. As a result of repeated efforts at settlement between the Benevolent Trustees and the Charitable Aid Board, the former body has resolved to resign on Tuesday next it the rnoiaey requested by them is I not granted by bhe Board. ! A miner named Jas. McFarlane was killed by a fall of earth at Bluespur, Lawrence, this afternoon. Affidavits ba^ebaen filed by V, Braund and Charles Fraser, of Wellington, and Miss Barnicoat in support of an application for a public examination of tbe directors and officers of the Colonial Bank.