NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 261, 8 May 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Tress Association) Gisuorne, This Day. A child named Henry Crabtree, aged three years, fell from a load of wood and the dray "wheel passed over his face, lulling him Instantly. The charges against three local shopkeepers for failing to close on Saturday afternoon were dismissed, the informations being technically faulty. Wellington, May 7. Patrick, the the third victim of Friday's fire, is sinking. A block of three acres in Hobson street, which the ratepayers refused to allow the Council to purchase for a recrtat on ground has been bought through the firm of Bethnne and Co., by U. Ziman, of Johannesberg, for £8500. The latter, who is on a visit to New Zealand, intends inspecting mines in the Auckland District with the intention of introducing capital to develop any property that seems likely to turn out a prolitable investment. Auckland, May 7. A man named John Lew, is missing at Wade. The police are searching. He is supposed to have made away with himself. The son of Thos Hamilton, settler, Dtury, aged 3, died of injuries through his clothes catching fire. JDunedin. May 7. Information has been laid against iha manager of Speight and Company's Brewery, charging him with a breach oi the beer duty Act by sending out a keg oi beer without affixing the necessary chu/y stamps. The Star suggests that advantage might be taken of Mr Ward's presence in London to convert local bodies' loans, so as to reduce the intolerable burdens felc by municipalities and other public bodies. Napier. May 7. The Meanee hotel, occupied by Mr P. Dooney, was destroj'ed by fire this morning. The insurances are — Building LBOO, furniture and stock L4OO in the Standard Office, of which L80l) is re-insured in the Norwich Union. L 250 in the New Zealand and L2OO in the Ailiance.