TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 16, 19 July 1906, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, Wednesday. A public meeting called to protest against the influx of navvies, resolved to instruct Mr S. Boreham to write a letter to one of the large daily papers in tiie Home Country, giving a detailed acoount of the conditions of labour iv this .colony, and also the cost of living. " Wellington, Wednesday. A poll of ratepayers was taken today upon the loan proposals of the City Council, which involved the raising of £22,052 for various purposes. All of the proposals except two were carried, theso being £9000 for a new public library and tramway offices, £1800 for tho erection of employees' houses. News was received to-day from Karamea that| Stevensen, of the scow Rangi, with two of the crew and a young man named James Hunter were capsised out of a boat while sounding the bar, and were drowned. Hawera, Wednesday. The Hawera Poultry Show was a great success. There were 650 entries and all classes were well represented. G. Goodacre (New Plymouth) took I_>th North Island championships in Andalusians and Hamburgs, his heps winning in each case, Montgomery (Palmerston North) had the best bird in the show — a brown Leghorn j cockerel. ' , Christchurch, Wednesday. Henry L. Hamilton was committed for trial to-day on the chairge of having at Wellington forged cheques for £24 15s and £5. Alexander McKenzie, a billiard marker, was also committed for trial on a charge of having committed perjury.