TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 132, 3 December 1906, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, December 2. Perfect weather prevailed for the second day of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Show. The attendance was a record, about 20,000 people being present. The takings for the first day amounted to £140 11s 6d, and for the second day £707 ils. E. J. McLennan's Buttercup secured the first and championship and special merit for the champion fiairy cow. Rotorna, December 2. J. W. May died last night, after a veek'B illness. Death was due to iLeumonia. A week ago he was brought in from the country, where he was out doing business. He was tl en in a critical state of health. He was greatly respected and a good townsman. Mastarton, December 2. Patrick SlatteryJ 35 yents of age, vns killed on Saturday morning in a gravel pit at Wangaehu. The earth above him gave way and lutied him. Napier, December 3. 3he hospital demonstration in I tastings yesterday realised £104, to vbich has to be added about £60, collected in town en Saturday. A two-year-old child. named Aithur Herbert Strachan, died in the hospital yesterday, from the result o' scalds sustained by the upsetting ot a tin of boiling water. Auckland, December 3. An Australian youth, who failed to pass the education test upon arriving from Sydney a week ago upon the steamer Manuka, was ordered oy the Magistrate to be deported to Sydney and kept in gaol until the time of leaving. The youth was detained on the steamer, but escaped, and was arrested. The Collector of Customs said that the youth would probably learn to write after spending a few weeks in Sydney, and could tren be admitted to the colony. Auckland, December 3. Thomas Manning has been arrested at Coromandel, and charged <%ith having stabbed William Hollis, the manager of the old Eapanga gold mine at Coromandel. with a sheath knife. Manning called upon HoUis to get paid for his work at the mine, and it is alleged that Manning stabbed him through the muscular part of his arm, the knife, severing all the muscles, coming out at the shoulder, inless blood poisoning sets in, the <loctor does not anticipate any immediate danger. It is stated that Manning was dismissed a few days ago. Ashburton, December 3. About ten o'clock last night a two stcry wooden building, of fourteen rooms, situated on the Wakanui read, and ocoupied and owned by Mr AS. Moriarty, wa's totally destroyed IV fire. Only a small quantity of fintiitare was saved. There was a stoppage in the water supply,* and the brigade were practically powerless. The fire is supposed to have originated through one of the family inadvertently placing a lighted c> idle near the wall, and the paper Looming ignited. The insurance on the- building ?s £400 in the Alliance, and on the lorniture, £100, in the North British.