NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, Oct. 26. Lady Glasgow, though still very weak, is out of danger. The Governor recently reoived from England intelligence of the death of Lady Glasgow's father, Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, Bart., of Blairquham. The Government has declined to accede to the suggestion to hire a wharf in London at which New Zealand timber could be landed. Seyeral alterations have been decided on in the Union S.S., Company's service inducting the withdrawn) of the Grafton from the West Coast trade. After an overhaul she goes to Tasmania for the coastal trade there. Mr E. Tregear, Secretary of the Labour Department, has had the special decoration of Officer d'Acadamie conferred on him by the French Government aa a mark of appreciation of his scientific work. M. Potoki de Montalk, Professor of Foreign Languages at Auckland University, is the recipient of a similar honor. New Plymouth, Oct. 16. Mr Roy, the retiring Mayor, was waited on with a requisition this morning, and consented to stand again. Mr James Bellringer, a former Mayor, opposes him. Dunedin, Oct. 26. The mining returns of the Upper Waipori Company are 19oz 17 dwts of gold for 132 hours for two dredges; the Jutland Flat Company, 81oz 2dwts of gold for 136 hours ; The Barewood Quartz Mining Company SBozs 2dwts of retorted gold from 150 tons. Auckland, Oct. 24. ; The large residence at Paparoa of Mr McCarrol), J.P., was burnt to the ground on Saturday night. The cause of the fire is unknown. The house was insured in the South British for LISCO, including the furniture. The residence was said to be the finest north of Auckland. Nelson, Oct. 26. W. A. Thomson, of Wellington, has lowered the cycle record from Nelson to Foxhill and back, a distance of 44 miles, by 15min 12sec, doing the distance in 2hr 14min 48sec. The weather and condition of the roads were most favorable. Probably Thomson will start for Blenheim to morrow.