NEW ZEALAND telegrams.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 262, 11 May 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND telegrams.

«. (Per Press Association. Wellikgton, May 10. Some dissatisfaction exists amongst the torpedo corps over the new regulation requiring the men to obtain the same uniform as the permanent artillery. Tbey claim that the unsuitable work would make it impossible to keep the dress clenn, while the cost is £10. A number of the beEt men ato leaying. This Day. Mrs Andrews, who was missing from her home, near Martinborongh, since Tuesday last, was found in the bnsh at Moiki. She was alive, but in a dazed condition, and could give no reason for her disappearance. Dunedin, Blay 10. Ferdinand Himmel, 61 years of age, employed as a runner in the Star office, died of heart disease last nigbt. He leaves a widow and grown-up family. This Day. The Austral Girton Club, on the suggestion of Miss Freeman, havo agreed to send all the children's garments made since tho formation of tho club to the sufferers by tbe Hawke's Bay flood. i "While lowering some of the pump pipes down a shaft of the Cromwell coal pit, Mr W. G. Stronach, late of Mount Pisa Station, had his right leg cut ofi* about half way between the knee and the ankle The brake slipped, and Bir Stronach 's leg was caught in the coil of the wire rope. Auckland, May 9. John Douglas was committed for trial ou five charges of stealing various sums of money, which he held on terms requiring him to pay tho same to J. P. Deuiouliu and fraudently omitting to account for or psy the sauio to Damoulin. Captain Bongard, master of the mission yacht Southern Cross, died this moruing, after a long illness. He had been counccted with the mission 21 years, joining tho second Southern Cross as mate in 1871. He became captian of the third vessel in 1884, and brought out the present yacht in 1892. Palmekston North, May 10. A sis-roomed house in Church street, owned and occupied by a man named Bittlenieyer, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The houae was insured for £100 in the National office. Masterton. May 10. A woman named Pain was leading a horse through Masterton yesterday, when it hung back, pulling a finger rigbt off her band, the rope being twisted round her finger. Christohurch, May 10. This morning a mau, supposed to be married, named David Neate, working at a farm at Belfast, was found dead, lying backwards across a barbed wire fence. Mr H. J. Hall, an old resident died suddenly this afternoon.