NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 222, 20 March 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

♦ (Per Press Association.) Auckland, March 19. " Prince Francis Joseph, of Battenburg, j arrived from Rotorua He made a call at i Government House today, r At a meeting of the Hospital and Chari- ; table Aid Board no reference was made to s the private inquiry going on at the Hos- ; pital by the House Committee for the last ■ fortnight. It is not known when the rei port will be submitted. A large steamer for the steam boats : ferry between Auckland and North Shore [ is proposed to be built at a cost of £6000. A. Hastwell, quartermaster of the Tasmania, was presented with a handsome silver medal as a memento for the plucky way he rescued the girl Hilda Stewart, who fell off the Tasmania on the 3rd inst. Wellington, March 19. The arrangements for working on the s Mokohinui Coal Company's mine by the ; Knights of Labor have practically been s completed. The property is to be leased r for two years with the right of renewal for a further term of two years and the company is to receive the royalty of Is on each ton of coal brought out. There are 700 applications on hand from girls who want ftppo.infcnifinfcs in thd Telephone exchanges. 1 1 Since the Government took over the Railways they have had a hundred ap-. plications for employment;. Four tenders have been received for construction of bridges over the Matawa on the Seaward Bush Line. The one accepted is for .£9OOO. Dunedin, March 19. The Beneovlent trustees he] and enquiry to-day and passed a resolution that they were unanimously of opinion that the charges against Inspector Favell ot improper behaviour to Mrs Howie and other women have entirely broken down, and are satisfied that the Inspector is quite blameless in the whole matter. At the annual meeting of Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. (New Zealand i Drug Company) the report recommending the payment of 7£ per cent dividend , was adopted. , Cheistchurch, March 19. • Application has been lodged in the Supreme Court for a mandamus to com pel the Registrar-General to put A. B Worthington on the list of officiating ministers under the Marriage Act. It will come before Justioe Denniston at the next sittings in Banco.