TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 123, 22 November 1906, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Association.] Dunedin, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court Lin Foon, who had been found guilty of doing bodily harm by firing a revolver, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, The returned bowlers were formally welcomed by the New Zealand Bowling Association at tho Grand Hotel in the forenoon in the presence of a number of local bowlers. Mr Payne said the subject of their visit was in bringing bowlers of the Commonwealth in touch with bowlers of Hew Zealand. That accomplished, he felt certain now that visits would be paid every* year and test and interstate matches would be played throughout the different States, and some of the best bowlers in Australia would be at the Christchurch tourney in January He denied that there had been the slightest approach to friction throughout the tour. Walter Henry Mitchell, William McPherson, and Patrick Opperkuch were convicted of the confidence trick and sentenced by Justice Cooper to five years' imprisonment each. An old man named O'Grady died in the hospital to-day, aged 85 years. He joined- the navy in 1850, aud went out to China in H.M.S. Odin in 1860. He was present at the taking of the Taku forts at the mouth of the Peiho River, and for his services received a medal and two clasps. For years he had been a miner on the West Coast, and was an old age pensioner. Thames, Wednesday. John Brown, a jockey apprentice in the employ of James Twohill, a most promising rider, met with a serious accident while riding exercise work today. The horse fell and Brown sustained concussion of the brain and a broken collarbone. He was removed to the Thames Hospital, where he lies unconscious. Greymouth, Wednesday. A young man named Martin Kennedy met with a nasty accident to-day. His horse took fright and bolted, and the bit breaking, Kennedy jumped off, landing on his knees and breaking one j of his kneecaps. I Nelson, Wednesday. The Premier left for Wellington by the Tutanekai at 10 o'clock to-night. Interviewed before his departure on. the prosper ts of the International Ex--hibition, Sir Joseph Ward said the receipts for admission at the gates so far were a happ} r augury for its success. Up to the twentieth of the present month the receipts for admission at the gates had amounted to £5023, an average of £314 each day. In addition upwards of £10,000 worth of season tickets had been disposed ot. Christchurch, Wednesday. To-day was a quiet day at the Exhibition, the total number of admittances being 8665, which, though a falling off from the figures of the preceding day, still shows an increase on the total for Monday, which was 8609. The total attendance has now been 276,699.