NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 August 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.)

Presbyterians United.

Wellington, August 10

Delegates from the Presbyterian Church of Otago and the Presbyterian Church of Kew Zealand met in Wellington this week, and made the necessary arrangements for consummation of the union of the two churches at Dunedin in October next, and prepared a programme of business for the first United Assembly.

Frozen Poultry to South Africa. Boports on a trial shipment of frozen poultry made by the Government to South Africa show that the fowls realised 5s per pair and ducks 63 per pair. The agent who sold them says the condition of the birds and the way they were packed left nothing to bo desired. Charge of Infantaside. Dunedin, August 11. At the Police Court, Elizabeth Hiscock »»ed 20 was charged with the murder of » male infant. About Juno first the body was found wrapped in a brown paper on the roadside hy a bakers cart, close to the river. At the inquest the doctor said the child • was born alive, and death was caused by violence of some sort, probably suffocation. Last evening the detectives arrested the young woman at the Pier Hotel where # he was employed as a domes'ic. She was remanded till the 19jb. The mother is supposed to live at Wellington, The Contingents at the Front. Wellington, This Day. The Premier received the following cable from Colonel Porter, in command of the Seventh Contingent in South Africa * In doctor’s hands from ahorse accident in the field. Nothing serious. The Contingent is at Krconsradt. Ex- * to reioin at Bloemfontein for next £ek Most successful engagement. imfcV“«“ d “ oaiies7oionß '. i

The Boer women and children removed to the concentration camps GOO, kaffirs 500, No fresh casualties, and all are well.