NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 126, 26 November 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Pre:js Association.) ; Gisbobne, Nov. 25. At the iDqncst held at Me.tawhero in regard to a tire which occurred at the residence of Charts McFarlnoein August Just, t tie jury returned a verdict that the house was burned down by a person unknown, and there was not the value of property in the house at the time of the i fire R8 represented by McFarlane to the l Insurance Company. Subsequently the i police arrested MecFarlane and charged I him with arson and making a false deI claration. He was remanded tor a week. I John Sheen, licensee of the Tauranga- | nui HoteJ, formerly well koown as a commercial traveller, fell from the balcony while extinguishing the hotel lamp this morning and received a compound fracture of his leg. The limb was ampu- , tated and Sheen died shortly afterwards. I Dunedin, Nov. 25. ; Missea Moore, Eraser and Smith, three I Dunedin young Indies, leave on Friday I for the Centra) China Mission under the I charge of Mrs Anderson of Glasgow. i Auckland, Nov. 25. i Tho National Hank shipped by the > Rotouiahana five boxes of bullion eon* I taining 5327 ounces, valued at 6,800. i The shipment is to be forwarded to London by the Tongariro. On the last rabbit day the "Waikato natives brought 20,000 skins. They re* port that weasels are spreading rapidly in the King Country and proving destructive amongst the rabbits. Tanpo telegrams state the eruption of Te Mare still continues, volcanic dust being carried in a south-easterly direction ; towards the Kaimanawa ranges. The earth tremors are felt. The geysera in i the neighbourhood of Wairakei and Spa • show no abnormul action. Ngaruruhoe, which, like Ruaephu, was almost covered [ with snow early this morning, is now almost denuded.