NEW ZEALAND telegrams.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 254, 1 May 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND telegrams.

(Por Pfoss Association. Auckland, April 39. The "Wnibi Silverton re'nrn for the month hliovvh further improvement. £10413 whs obtained from 200 tuns of oro n;rain?t. £1594 in March; Xls(il in Februrry ; and I'lOiJjj in Jnnn«ry. Mr Bowick this morning p:\id £1000 to the Hit or Mir,s and £1000 to the Central aud Joker mines, Paiiri, Thames, to day, us deposits for thss purchase of tho property. He is also bound by agreement to float tho company by 1 )< -coluber next. The capita' is £150,000, workiug capital £30,000^ The vendors received certain paid up shares for absolute >.\lc. CnßisTcnußcii, April 30. At a mer-ting to-night attended by 150 psfoiis, a motion favouring the abolition cl c-ipiinl piinisiiineut was carried with biv. five dis-irntii-nIH. John Anderson, head of the firm of Anderson ami Sons of the Canterbury foundry, diod this inoruiug, aged 77. He was one of the pioueirs m the settle mi'iit of Canterbury having arrived in ]!->.;O. lie has occupied many prominent aud honorable positions and was well known throughout the colony, I his Day, A younj; woman named Rhoda Welshranii; 10 years old, died suddenly at Southbrook. The cause of death is unknown. Wellington, April 30. Two of llio bodies of the three missing urn from the Zuk'ika were recovered on Sunday i^-st, but were utterly uureco<*nistbks. Tlio}' were buried nlongside the others. A ht-avy rolling sea on Sunday smr-jihed up the remainder of the vessel, Miid only the iron deck-houso remains. The spars, with ths exception of one— a jury via-t — are nil smashed nnd destroyed. Tho spa on Sunday washed away nearly half tho snlwvgc ihnt the men employed by Mr Floekton had lnid on the beach. The mines of ihe missing men were : — G.-llon (inarrirrt) A.8., 51; Williams, cotk, "27; David Strnock, apprentice, IS years. Sir Roll. President of the Welliucton Rriciug Club, has forwarded his resignation. The acceptance has not yet been considered by the Stewards, but will pjobably be accepted though effect may not be civeu it until the end of the Club's year, about August. Major Sommerville has wired from Lyttcltou that King, of Oarnaru, leaves by tho Kimutaka for London and will be in time to join the shooting team at Bisley. His iuclnsion will greatly strengthen the New Zealanders.