NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 32, 6 August 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.! Gisborne, August 5. The schooner Aotea has arrived. Tbe damage is not so considerable as was first estimated. It is now believed tbe origin was caused by the ignition of cotton wast* by spontaneous combustian or by rats witb matches. Wellington, August 5. The Typographical Conference has carried a resolution recognising the generosity of tbe proprietors of the Melbourne Age in granting a pound per week pension to seven old employees displaced by the lineotype machines. Other firms in Australia are granting retiring allowances to old servants displaced by maohines. Auckland, August 5. It has been decided to form a Retailers' Association on the lines of those in the South. Richard Kirk, for assaulting Con stable Hollis, and Michael Fisher, for assaulting Constable Kennedy, was fined £4, or a month's imprisonment. The Jubilee Children's Hospital Com mitteo bave decided to apply to the Military Tournament Committee for the funds in hand to add a children's wing to the Hospital. At tbe Police Court, two cabdrivers, Quinton Jas. Beresford and John Shanahan, was charged with stealing from Thos. Boorham half a sovereign, a £5 note, and 1.0. U. for £100, and a Union Co.'s return steerage ticket to Christchurch. After hearing evidence Shanahan was acquitted and Beresford com mitted. Rekfton, Tbis Day. John Gilmer, a farmer, of Wait. ha, was lcil.ad by the capsizing of a dray which struck a log.