NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 284, 7 June 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

iPer Press Association. Ohristchurch, June 4 In addition to the reduction of the wool rates for sailing ships next season announced last week, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company and New Zealaud Shipping Company have agreed to reduce the steamer freights by an eighth of a penny per lb. Next season's rates of freight for greasy wool will therefore bo three-eighths of a penny by the sailers and a halfpenny by the steamers. At the ballot for sections in the Hor sley Down homestead today there was a large attendance and groat excitement. There worn 764 applications for 25 sections. Nearly all tho sections were drawn by young men with sufficient : capital to work them. Ouly one lady out of a dozen drew a prize. Dunedin, June 5. Search parties have been unable to find any trace of Walter Gnnu, who lift ; Roxburgh a week ago, and it is feared 1 he ban been buried in tlm snow. If so. his body is not likely to be discovered before September. Woodvjlle, June 5. It has been decided to hold an Agri--1 cultural Show in the autumn ;if possible, 1 on the day the Railway is opened from Pahiatua. Lyttelton, June 5. 1 Myles Newby, cook on tho ketch 1 Clematis, was knocked overboard by a ; boom. His forehead struck a rail with > preafc force and he sank immediately. 1 He was single, aged 34. Invercakgill, June 6. I A handsome cake of 498 ounces from » 270 tons of stone, valued at £2041, was • received to-day for twenty days crushing J at the Morning Star mine. The Preser vation mine has now yielded for 15 J months £22,000 worth of gold. Wellington, June 6. The Conciliation Court has failed to induce all the employers to subscribe to the award in the tailoring dispute. Only three however refuse, and the conrt will 5 report that if the Arbitration Court is 1 called in and vanes the award which is • signed by twenty-five firms the latter ' must have the benefit of the variations. Three hundred applications under the Peoples' Claim Act have been received I here. AmoDgthe bills for next session is one providing for the inspection of meat before freezing and exporting. The Union Company has received advice that their new steamer, the Waikaia, left Glasgow for Dunedin on the Ist with a full cargo and 28 passengers. The Railway Department is endeavouring to make arrangements re the engine hands recently discharged from L the Petone Workshops. The supply of rolling stock will be increased as soon its possible This Day. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened this morning before Judge Edwards. Winstones Bros.' stables, in Symond street, was partly destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £2000. Insurance £2000 in the New Zealand. It is definitely decided that Welling ton is to be the final port of departure in New Zealand of the Canadian-Aus tralian Royal Mail. Steamship Line ; also, Wellington wili be a port of call of steamers from Suya en route to Sydney. Auckland, June 5. The return for the past four weeks from the Waihi mine are very satisfactory, showing an increase of all but £20,000 upon the yield of tho previous month- During the four months 3274 tons of ore were treated for a yield in bullion worth £11,297.