NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XX, Issue 64, 14 September 1898, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Invercaegill. September 12. There is considerable excitement in Golden Site Extended shares, which have been bought at from 6d to ss, consequent on a report brought overland from Preservation Inlet on Saturday, The Alpha battery has started, and returns should be available in about IB days. Further finds of reefs of great magnitude are also reported. Wellington. September 12. The Wellington members of the team which is to represent New Zealand in the Federal Rifle matches in New South i Wales next month, will be Lieut. Com* mander Kirk (Petooe Navals), Privates A.Ballanger and Uale (Guards) and Private Howe (City Rifles). Chief Petty Officer Williams (Wellington Navals) and Colour-Sergeant Hawthorne (Civil Service Riflee) were asked to go, but were unable to obtain leave of absence. The Department of Agriculture estU mate the cost of establishing an experimental station in the Auckland district at about £15,000. Tbe Government intend to submit a proposal to Parliament to expend .£7OOO on electric lighting and drainage works at Rotorua ; also tbe question of placing the town under a municipal council. The Porirua Asylum is to be further extended at a cost of L4OOO, and a far ther expenditure of L3OOO has been authorised on the Otago Central Rail way. Christchukch, Sept. 13 . In consequence of the strictures passed upon him, Inspector Brohain has ten dered his resignation to the Government. This Day. The body of John Manhire, ased 43 years, single, was found hanging by the neck to a tree in the parsonage grounds at Waikare. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. Auckland, September 13. The Rev Joseph Campbell has discovered a process for making an illuminating gas from Waikato coal. It is an adaptation ot water gas but has a naturally pungent odour. The discoverer says it can be supplied at 5s per 1000 ft and tbe cost of the plant is -£2000. At tbe Supreme Oonrt sessions, Mr Conn Melville, for a breach of the Bankruptcy Act by attempting to leave the colony and taking L2O, the property of his creditors, was put on probation for six months. Auckland, This Day. A meeting of the representatives of tbe Organisations of Labor last night formed a Workers' Railway League Committee comprising delegates from the Federal Association, Single Tax League, the various Labor Unions, and the Women's Political Leagues. The The object is to secure railway connec tion between Auckland and Taranaki. An opinion was expressed that if necessary the matter should be made a question of " no confidence." Dunedin, September 13. William Brebner, senior check clerk in the local Telegraph Office, died this morning, pneumonia supervening on influenza. He had been ailing for a fort night.