NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland. August 6. Variou9 tradesmen were fined for broaches of the Factory Act Convictions were f»ot in all the prosecutions. Tho steamer Murray reports passing two miles west: Terawbiti what appeared to be the after- mast of a small ketch, with trestle tires at each end. The mast which was of white pine, had not from it? appearance beon long in the water. A number of shearers left to day for Sydney via the Wahatipu. Tho police bav6 searched fruitlessly for the bodies of Berry and Prince who were drowned in the smack Lily. Atapablic meeting at Parnell Mr K Withy moved, and it was carried after discussion unanimously' " That this meeting heartily endorses the proposal of the Government to exempt buildings and other local improvemeuts from rating, and hopes that the Bill embodying this principle reforred to in the Governor's speech to become law this session." Intelligence has beon received that the Kauri Timber Company's kcteh Nellie is ashore on the rocks, between Mercury Bay andTairua. The cargo is saved. The vessel is expected to be got off if c- rcr'y weather does n»t fet in The Company's loss is covered by its insurance fund. Dunedin, August 9. At a poorly attended meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, a resolution opposing the Governmc&t proposals to porrow £'1,500,000 for loans to farmers and £250,000 for repurchase of lands already sold was carried, while the proposal to issue £1,000.000 consols in the colony was approved of Mary Jane Robertson sought a dissolution of her marriage with Walter Robertson, ex.hotelkeeper, on the ground of cruelty and adultery. A rule nisi was granted, to be made absolute iv three mouths.