GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 31, 7 February 1899, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION. ]

Auckland, 6th February. The largest shipment of butter that has yet gone from the local works— loo tonswas sent South by the Rotoiti for transhipment at Wellington to London. The Queen's Statue Committee decided to-day to defend the action raised in the Supreme Court re the disposal of the tournament funds. Captain Giovello, of the Italian warship Etna, states that while here he intends to obtain a supply of Westporfc coal. He purchased some at Suva, and considers it the best coal he had used for many years. He visited Auckland in 1878 in the Cristoforo Colombo, an Italian warship, Chbistchubch, 6th February. Eighty-eight old age pension claims were dealt with in Christchurch to-day. Fiftyone were granted full pensions, four received smaller amounts, and the rest were adjourned. The number granted to date is 170. The horse-fiend who stabbed three stallions last night is still undiscovered. Although all the available police have been scouring the country to-day no clue that would lead to his identification has been obtained. Stratford, This Day. The Chamber of Commerce has received a very favourable report on the sample of coal sent to the Government Analyst. Mr. Skey, in hia report, says it is a solid, lustrous, homogeneous, non-coking coal, burning easily. The results prove it to be a good brown coal, well fitted for domestic purposes. [our own correspondent.] Feathebston, This Day. Mr. F. Monckton was returned yesterday for the Featherston Riding of the South Wairarapa County Council.