NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 176, 28 January 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) New Plymouth, Jan. 27. The well-known chief Te Whitu, who ranks next to Te Wbiti and Tohu. is lying dangerously ill at Paribaka and the natives are gathering from all directions in anticipation of bis decease. Auckland, January 27. Tbe Crown Lands Board has withdrawn at the suggestion, of tbe Surveyor General, 247f> acres iv East Taupo iv connection with Mr J. C- Firth's pro posed scheme for \itilisiu£ the Haka falls to drive the Thames goldfields batteries by electricity. Government contemplate makiug the Haka falls block a reserve. The bricklayers at a meeting demanded an advance of 3d or Is 6d per hour. A boy named Wm. O'Brieu aged ten years fell into the graving dock and died his skull been fractured. Wellington, This Day. The body of a man named Joseph Guilford, alias Thomas Kelly, about 38 years of age, supoosed to be a labourer, was found floating off Queen's Wharf at 7 a.m. Christchurch, Jan. 27. At the Hospital Board meeting to-day the resident surgeon, Dr Fox, was permitted to withdraw his resignation. The Chairman explained that the trouble had arisen between a member of the medical staff and the resident surgeon. It was not a matter that had any bearing either on the efficiont working of tha Hospital or on the safety or comfort of any patient but was entirely a personal matter between the doctors alluded to. The chairman's explanation was considered by the Board to be entirely satisfactory. Mr C. W. Wagstaff, of the firm of Rhind and Wagstaff, produce agents, Lyttelton, dropped dead about 9.30 p.m to-day. The cause of death is supposed to have been heart disease. Another instance of horse killing occurred last night, a vauable horse belonging to W. White, at New Brighton, having its throat cut. The proposal of the St. Alban's Borough Council to borrow i-22,500 for carrying out the necessary works was rejected at a poll yesterday. Lord and Lady Brassey left this morning, on their way to the Otira Gorge.