NEW ZEALAND telegrams.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 260, 8 May 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND telegrams.

(Per Press Association. Napier, This Day. Fears are entertained for tLe safety of the cutter lona, which left the Spit a fortnight ago for Porangahau. She has not been heard of since. The crew consists of two— Jackson and Thomas. Auckland, May 7. A man named Loach and his young son, who went out in a fishing boat at Coromandel, not retnrning, a search is being instituted for them. Max Levy, who according to tho police record has just served three years' imprisonment for forsrery in Sydney, was brought up on two charges of forgery of cheques in the name of L. D. Nathan and Co. He was committed for trial. Timard, May 7. At the inquaat to-day, into the death of Maurice O'Connor (18), the jury found that the cause of his death was due to inhaling the fumes of phosphorous whilst engaged in poisoning rabbits in the McKenzie country, last month. This is the second death from this cause this season. Wellington, May 0. Tha affiliated unions are to be asked to each nominate one man, from wborn the committee may pick a New Zealand football team for Australia. The Monowai, with the English mails of the 7th of April, left San Fran cisoo on tbe 29th (due date), and the Alameda, with the colonial mails of the 17th of April, reached Sa» Francisco on the 6th of May (due date.) A cablegram was received from Sun Francisco from Hon. R. Seddon, Premier, announcing the arrival there of Mrß Seddon, daughters and himself. All well. The trip, he adds, was a very pleasant one, and they had a most enjoyable voyage,