TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1909, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

FEILDING ITEMS. (Bt Txwskaph.— Spewai, to Thb Foht.l FEILDING,. This Day. With an improvement in the prices of stock, and a better demand for sheep, on account of the abundance of feed, the prospect for the remainder of the winter season for the man on the land is very bright. The influence of the Main Trunk line on Feilding breeders is already making itself felt. We get buyers from the countryside ranging from Hunterville to Hamilton. A Goryton farmer just back from a tour in the northern country brings back the good report that settlers in the newlj'-opened districts throughout the Waimarino and the Waikato are looking to Feilding for their sheep and cattle. "Feilding is to be more than ever the stock centre of this side of the Island." says the Colytonian. Tphess association.! PRISONER ESCAPES — JUMPS FROM A TRAIN. CHRISTCHURCH, 11th June. While a young man named William James Murphy, who appeared at the Ashburton Magistrate's Court to-day upon several charges of theft, and who was remanded to Christchurch pending the hearing of further charges against him, was being brought to town by the first express, he took advantage of a momentary opportunity to jump off the train. He was in the custody of two constables afc the time, and was handruffed, and when he jumped off, the train was approaching Hornby, and travelling at the rate of nearly thirty miles an hour. The man fell 'clear of the line, and seemed uninjured by his fall, for when last seen he was getting through the railway fence. The train was stopped at Hornby, and the constables alighted and travelled back to where the man had jumped off, but could find no trace of him, and a subsequent search made throughout the evening aiso proved fruitless. It is expected, however, that the man will be captured shortly. DIVORCE. CHRISTCHURCH, 12th June. Jane Annie Thompson petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with Samuel Thompson, who did not appear, and who was not represented by counsel. The parties were married on 15th August, 1894, and lived for a few months in Dunedin, and for four years in Milburn. Evidence was given that since January, 1900, ; petitioner had not seen respondent, who had left to go to Wellington, and had afterwards gone to Sydney. Respondent was a ship's steward, but had been farming at Mlburn. A boardinghousekeeper stated that respondent had /stayed at her house in 1907, and had stated that he wag going home to his wife in Scotland, and asked her to forward his letters to an address he gave. Later the boardinghouse-keeper 1 received a letter from Marion Thompson thanking her for .forwarding letteis. His Honour" granted a deciee nisi, to be made absolute in three months. ASHBURTON WINTER SHOW. ASHBURTON, 11th June. At th.c Winter Show the winners of I the championships for the South Island | were : — Game, 8. Solomon, Dunedin;! ! Hamburgs, G. Knowles, Stirling ; white I Leghorns, A. Finlayson, Chrietc hurch ; brown Leghorns, W. C. Lillico, Tirnaiu ; black leghorns, T. W. Ker, Timaru ,- Mmorcas, J. lindall, St. Albans; Plyj mouth Rock, W. A. Sowman, Blenheim ; silver Wyandottes, J. H. Shaw, Christchurch ; golden Wyandottes, F. C. Hack, Riccarton ; white Wyandottes, G. H. Blair, Timaru ; black Orpingtons, R. Fountain, Dunedin ; buff Orpingtons, N. A. Fountain, Port Chalmers ; Indian runner ducks, J. H. Day, Dunedin ; Shaw homer pigeons, C. E. Sheppard, Lyttelton ; African owl, W. B. M'Kenzie, Merivale;, magpie, T. R. Boyes, Wellington ; tumblers, T. H. Jones, Christchurch ; flying homer, W. B. M'Kenzie, Merivale ; Norwich yellow canaries, G. Wells, Christchurch; Norwich buff canaries, T. Wilkinson, St. Albans ; Yorkshire yellow, Miss A. Mill, Nelson. QUESTION OF A FENCE. NAPIER, 13th June. The Hawkes Bay Land Board to-day received a letter from the Hawkes Bay Board of Rabbit Trustees regarding relinquishing the upkeep of the rabbitproof fence from Waimate Stream to the junction of the Tiraumea and Manawatu Rivers. The Under-Secretary for Lands also asked for a report as to the necessity for the continuance of the fence. It was resolved that the fence, having been erected at great cost, the board were of opinion that its upkeep should be continued. BALLOT FOR LAND. NAPIER, 13th June. A ballot for leases of three sections was held at the District Lands Office on Saturday, and resulted as follows: — Section 6, Block 6, Nuhaka, 1153 a. lr., J. F. Wachsmann, Christchurch; Section 7, Block 6, Nuhaka, 1095 a. 2r., Claude Turner, Mangatoto, Gieborne ; Section 8, Block 6, Woodville, 78a. 3r. 27p., George W. Home, Hopelands. PETITION FROM CROWN TENANTS NAPIER, 13th June. A petition ironi Crown tenants on the Raumati Settlement was considered by the Hawke's Bay land Board. The board decided that it could not forego a year*, rent, but determined to give the settlers extension of time in which to PP a y t REFUSED. DUNEDIN, 12tn June. At p> meeting of the Taieri Licensing Committee two licenses, those for the Waihola Hotel and the Hyde Hotel, were refused. The committee had power to refuse only two licenses. PURCHASE OF AN ESTATE. NAPIER, 12th June. At a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Land Board, Mr. Eustice Lane moved, in accordance with notice of motion, as follows: — "That this board, while appioving of the proposed purchase of Mr. A. Mackersey's Tongoio Estate for close settlement, draws the attention of the Government to the suitability of much of the Hawke's Bay_ province for closer settlement, and considers that the money borrowed for closer settlement constitutes a far better defence of these islands, than the offer to Britain Of empty Dreadnoughts, which a single bomb may fend to the bottom." Mr. T. N. Biodriek, Commissioner, paid that he should have perhaps ruled the motion out ot order, as it referred to matters outside the province of the board altogether. The motion, however, hnd been accepted by his predeces-.■-or, and Mr. Lane had been disappointed in moving it several times, so that he (tho speaker) would allow it to be moved, and would pimply enter a protest against any reference' being made to anything that was outside the business of the board. Mr. Groom seconded the motion pro foima, to allow Mr. Wright to move an amendment. Mr. Wright then moved as an amendment : "That the Government be congratulated upon the purchase of the Tongoio Estate." The amendment was seconded by Mr. Ackroyd and carried, Mr. Lano alone dissenting.