SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 199, 22 August 1900, Page 2

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Another meeting of citizens and members of Parliament was held today in connection with the Mount Cook University site movement. A petition was adopted for presentation to Parliament,' and it was decided, to circulate copies of it throughout the middle district for signature. Mr Hogg stated that a meeting of members of parliament for the middle districi, held recently, was attended by six. from each i chamber, while it was known several more were in favour ol the movement. The meeting unanl-1 mously adopted the following -resolution, "That the members of the Legls-. lature present representing the'middle district consider the Government should, without delay, set apart a site for Victoria College University, and affirm the opinion that the most eligible site is Mount Cook."

INVEECARGILL, this day.

"Arthur .Bull, a married man with a young family, was fatally injured in Fishers sawmill at Colac Bay, yesterday. ";■•■ ■' : •"■■.■ . ' ■. - . ,'.

CHEISTCHU^JCH, this day.

.At the inquest on the boy namecl James Nescur Abercrombie, killed by the Bichmorid coach on the Stanmore Ebad on Monday, the jury returned a verdict of' "Accidental death," no blame being attached to'anyone; Mr Justice Martin granted a decree nisi in the divorce case Upton v. Upton, husband's petition; on the ground of the wife's,desertion, thig morning,