NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 1, 1 July 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association. Gisdorne, June 29. The Hon. Mr Carroll states that the Engineer of the Public Works Department who has been receuUy engaged upon the Main Trunk Railway line lias received instructions to proceed to Gisborne forthwith, and make a trial survey of a line for the light railway between Gisborne and Rotorua. Nelson, June 30. The Nelson Poultry show takes place next week. Numerous entries are coming in. Christchurch, June 39. Ths Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club at its annual meeting to-night voted £10 10s towards ths expenses of sending a New Zealand team of athletes to Sydney for the Australian Championship Meeting in October. Auckland, June 30. A skeleton of a boy was found in Mangrove mud flat, off Taihoa, Kaipara Harbonr. E. Perkins, of Gloht, believed the remains to be those of one of his children drowned in a boating accident off Moturoa Islands in January, 1896, wbes a number of persons were drowned. Tbe barque Kate Tatham, bound from Newcastle to Napier, put in here in a disabled condition. Two of her top Basts were carried away. At one time the vessel had a narrow escape, Every ■ail was blown away, and the vessel was lying in a trough of sea, her decks being awash up to the rails. They had great difficulty in saving the mainmast. The case of Thomas J. Steele v. Bank of New Zealand — an action by way ol counter-claim (an original action by the bank against Steela for £199 6s Bd, foi calls, having been discontinued) to re cover £6959 5s 7d damages for alleged breaches of covenants— was continued in the Supreme Court to-day.