NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 128, 29 November 1899, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

! Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Timarit. November 28 At the inquest on Robert Stewart at Totara a verdict ef accidental death from gunshot, not suicide, as supposed. The I hammer caught a creeper as he was going I out of the door. Dunedin, November 17 Dean Fitchefc has rem-ived an intimation that the Con vocai ion of the Trinity University, Toronto, has admitted him to the M.A ud eundem, and h;is blsc conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity Jure Digtutatis. | This Day. William Waugh, one of the oldest stt tiers on Miller's Flat, was struck by hi? ho£ se, rupturing his heart. He died o: the injuries. Auckland, November 27A miner giving evidence in the Supremt Court said he and some others wen drinking in an hotel in a goldfields towns ship one evening np to 1 a.m. Tbe\ took a bottle of whiskey. up to their bed room. He had a couple of drinks befon he got up, and some more after break fast. Mr Justice Conolly said it was at extraordinary thing that a healthy young man, apparently hard working, shoulc behave in such a manner. It was dis gusting. Mr Theo. Cooyer remarked i was astonishing that the hotel coulc retain its license. His Honor said i wanted very careful looking after. Palmebston South, Nov. 28 A social to welcome the Hon. Johi MeKenzie, on his return from Britain, wai held in the town Hall last evening, am was well attended. Mr McKeuzie, ii responding to the toast of his health, spok< gratefully of the kindness of the settlers o Shag Valley, and of the sympathy showi to him in his troubles by residents of al parts of the colony. When he last spok< in that Hall he had doubted whether h< could ever do so again, but he was pleased to say lie thought he had go over the cause of bis trouble. Mr Me Eenzie referred in feeling terms to th< kindness of Mr J. G. Ward at the criti cal time, and acknowledged the consid crate courtesy of those who attendee him during the operation. He als< expressed gratitude to his politica opponents, who, during bis absence did nothing to traduce him in any shapi or form. Wellington, This Day. Sir B. Stout granted a rule nisi for £ writ of habeas corpus in the matter of E Bouvy, a New Caledonia liherc, on thi ground that he is illegally detained ; th< rule.to be made returnable at the first sit ting in banko after 10 days.