GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 18, 21 July 1900, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

other amendments, but as I am {old they have already been brought under tho notice of the Premier, i will now conclude. — I. am, etc., FAIR PLAY. Wellington, 16th July, 1900.

[press association.] NELSON, 201 h July. Dr. A. J. Leggall was committed for trial to-day on a charge of performing sin illegal operation. Bail was allowed accused in two sureties of £100 each. NKW PLYMOUTH, 20th July. At the Harbour Board meeting to-dsiy a communication was read from the Railway .Department agreeing from 23rd July to ■abolish ilie redesplohing charge of Is per ton, and charge dead weight fnsjoad of ship's measurement on the bretiitUliter line. The Board decided to reduce its charges Is per ton from Ist Augifst. Ib is uuderbtood the Union Company will also make a substantial reduction in freights. HAWERA, 20th July. So far as can be ascertained the insurances on the Manaia fire are— George White, nil: lliill and Co., unknown, but policy in the New Zealand ottiee; Stevenson, unknown. Northern office; Eginont Drapery Company, £400, Magdeburg Company; Mrs. Tail's hotel, £51)0, lto^al, on furniture; C. N. Ituiue, bank agent," £2.00, New Zealand oliii-o, on' furniture ; M. Franklin, owner ot Miinnia Hotel and buildings occupied by the Drapery Cdinpany, Steveii.von, and Nolan, Touks and Co., £1500, New Zealand otliee ; Day building, occupied by Hall and Co. and George While, is iuMired, but the amount is unknown. The estimated losses arei'SUOO. PALMERSTON, 20lh July. A conference of fruit-growers was held here to-day. Some amendments to the. Orchard aud Garden Pests Hill now before the llous-e were recommended. A resolution was passed affinniug the desirability df establishing a national horticultural .--ociety' for Nert Zealand, aud the Mima wu'tu Association was instructed to take the initiatory step.