NEW ZEALAND telegrams.
(Per Press Association. Palmerston N., May 5. The inquiry into tbe circumstances concerning the fire, which destroyed David Douglas' houso on April 37th was held to-day, and a verdict was returned that the house was deliberately set on fire with a view to defraud the insurance company. Auckland, May 4. Mr Falls, of St. James' Presbyterian Church, is a passenger by the Tasmania 1 to join the China Inland Mission, also the Misses Newton, who are to enter tho Pama Village Mission, India. Gisborne, May 4. At the Waiinata Valley this morning a man named Tom Gordon was found lying crushed by bis horse. He is being ' brought into the Hospital. Wellington, This Day. ' The Minister of Marine has author iscd tbe substitution of new barometers , at all tbe principal weather stations, the present instruments being out of date and unreliable. A number of new stations will also be opened to enable com--1 plete forecasts to be made. 1 Mrs Treder'a bouse, at Kuripuni, near 1 Masterton, was burned. A tiro bad been ' left burning, and no one was in at tbe time. Insurance, £230 (National).
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 258, 6 May 1897, Page 2
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189NEW ZEALAND telegrams. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 258, 6 May 1897, Page 2
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