NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 203, 1 March 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

, * (Per Press Association.) 1 Auckland, February 26. Louis Ebrenfried, a well-known brewer, is dead. He has been ill foi weeks from a complication of diseases. Skelley, wbo sustained a fractnre ol 1 his skull by tho capsize of a dray uear ' Siatter's Bush, has died at the Hospital. Gisborne, Feb. 26. Charles Conn pleaded guilty to a charge of personation at the last election. Mr Justice Con oily said there seemed to have been a lot of wild excitement over last election, such as had not been the case since be arrived in the colony, wbich was a good many years ago now, and he had no doubt the prisoner was pressed by one side or the other He admitted him to probation i for 12 months and ordered him to pay costs of the prosecution, i Christchurch, February 26. Mr James Holmes, flaxmillers' representative, interviewed several members of the Chamber of Commerce to-day, and the quarterly meeting of the Chamber unanimously passed a resolution approving of the action of flaxmillers in endeavouring to send an expert to examine the Home markets, and urging the Government to support the movement to its utmost. Hawera, February 27. The rainfall here during February has been phenomenal — viz., Hi inches. Masterton, February 28. An old settler named Alexander Mutrie, senr., fell dead on his way to church this morning. Dunedin, This Day. Owing to tho state of his healtb, Mr Tillet, the English Labour Leader, will not deliver auy addresses in New Zealand. New Plymouth, This Day. News has heen received tbat McLeod's general store at Tongapnrutu was destroyed and nothing saved. The building was valued at £10 and the stock at £170, partly covered by insurance. Napier, February 28. The morning train from Danevirke to Napier had a narrow escape of being derailed near Kopua. Tbe train had just crossed the viaduct when a truck got off the line through the under gear giving way, the trucks behind being heavily laden with timber prevented the passenger carriages leaving the line.