NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 127, 28 November 1899, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

0 Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Napier, November 27James Cosgrove, eabdriver, was found dend in bis bed on Saturday. At the inquest the jury found death was due to syncope. Mary Sheehan, wife of M. Sheehan, baker, died last evening. She had been filing for a few days, bat an inquest was deemed necessary. Wellington, Nov, 27. Mr Archibald Merlefc, well-known in athletic circles in Wellington, died suddenly at Epsom, near Bendigo, Victoria, on the 10;h instant. 1 Mrs Broudbent, of the Kniuoke railway refreshment rooms, died on Saturday it ft c r three dajs illness of an acute char ictcr. This Day. The Agent-General cables — The lonic and Ruabiue batter arrived iv yood condition. Butter, 103s. Tl)ere is a good dornand for butter. Cheese, 575. Market firm. Messrs Atkinson and Hutcheson have been nominated for the city, The whole of the members of the Wellington District Police Force Lave decided to come uuder the Police Provident Society Fund Act. • Palmerston N., This Day. A man named James Perrie, employed at Campbell's saw-mill, Waikanae, is missing from Palmerston district since show week. He hired a horse to ride to Woodville, leaving town at night. He has not been seen since, and is believed to have been drowned in the Manawatu river. Invkrcargill, Nov. 2-1. Two men were drowned in the Maianra ■ yesierdav p,t Gore. Walter Turner was coming oshore from Grada'm's dredge in •i boat attached to a traveller on a line, when it lurched, nnd ho was thrown out, and finully sank a few yards from the shallow water. Turner, who was about 30, was single. Philip J. Hill, a farmer on the Waikaia .-ide, entered the riyer on horseback, iu:ending to cross to see a man at. the coalpit. His horse was found on the other side riderless. Hill was oven sixty years of age, and an old resident of Southland. Neither of the bodies have been recovered. This Day. The Prohibitionists have decided to put up a candidate for Awarua so as to ensure the requisite half of the electors voting on the Local Option Poll. Auckland. November 27. The Ohinemnri Liberal Federation Delegates met at Paeroa, 1200 members being represented by 10 delegates from six branches of the Federation. The Hon. R. J. Seddon and the Hon. A. J. Cadman met the delegates, and discussed matters. A vote of the delegates was taken on all candidates. It was considered impossible that all the members of the League could vote, owing to the shortness of time at their disposal, The delegates rejected all the candidates but Jackson, Palmer, and E. J. Drum. The matter of selecting one of these is left to the Federation Executive, The Eev Finlay Wilson addressed the electors of Franklin. Yesterday in a line from Mayor Island through Motiti to the mainland, several waterspouts formed at short intervals, and travelled rapidly landwards, sometimes two being visible at once. The biggest was two thousand feet high. They went inland and broke over Papamoa. DrjNEDiN, November 27 At tho criminal sittings seventeen persons were charged with various offences, the Grand Jury finding true bills in all but two. A. T. Price aad Catherine Ashton, charged witn conspiring to procure aborhen, and James Hammond robbery, were the bills thrown out. The Land Purchase Board haye com pleted the purchase of the Barnego Estate from the Trustees of the late Eobert Paterson. It contains about 70S0 acres — pjut alluvial] and— near Balclutha, and a part loamy ridges in the Hillend District. Wakapuaka, Fovember 27 Information reached here this afternoon that the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company's steamier Anglia has successfully completed the laying of the Capetown- St. Helena cable.