NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 283, 4 June 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

-*. _ (Per Press Association.) Wellington, June 8At a public meeting composed largely of business men, it was decided to give Mr Ward a public welcome on his return, followed by a banquet. During last month 150;J persons arrived in the colony and 2959 left, the figures for the oarno month last year were 1356 and 2490. The jury brought in a verdict of incendiarism at the iuquiry into the cause of the fire which destroyed the schoolmaster's residence at Parkvale in the Wairarapa district. The Directors of the Uniou Steam Ship Company recently decided to give a bonus of £o to ten specially named survivors of the lost steamer Wairarapa's crew. Messrs Kendall, Johnston and Dunlop, who were respectively steward, third officer and second engineer and who are now in corresponding positions ou the Mararoa. Talune and Takapuna, have been awarded a gratuity of ±"25 each for special services at the wreck. The Mariposa left 'Frisce for Auckland on Thursday afternoon, time table date. Christchurch, June 3. In the Divorce Court to-day a decree nisi was granted in the case of James v. - James and Davis (husband's petition). A decree nisi was also granted in the case of Trott v. Trott, (wife's petition). Napier. June 3. At a meeting of the unemployed at Wairoa, a motion was carried protesting against laborers being sent from other districts to Government works in that neighborhood until tho local unemployed were absorbed. Auckland, June 3. Mr Wm. Crowther, M.H.R., forwarded a letter to the Premier urging fayorable consideration of the resolution of the Builders' Association that the re-building of the Auxiliary Asylum may be open to public competition as against co-opera-tive labor. Yesterday £3000 in gold was sent from Rotorua to pay wages and other expenses of the co-operative road parties in the Galatea district. The month's yield of the Hauraki mine Coromandel, was 2339 ounces, valued at £7250. The schooner Alice May, from Norfolk Island, brings news that seven deaths have occurred from influenza. The Islanders are getting everything in readiness for the whaling season, which begins next month, they all seem very pleased with the fruit crops this season. Invercargill, June 8. At the Police Court to-day, Frank Hewitt was fined £1 and costs for selling liquor without a license. The Bench commented in strong terms on the action of the police in engaging spies to secure a conviction. Ross, June 3. The Hon. the Premier visited Ross yesterday evening, and was accorded a most enthusiastic reception.