TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2575, 5 March 1915, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

PER PEESB ASSOCIATION. METHODIST' CONKERENCE. : C-bristchurch, March 4. At the Methodist Conference to-day resolutions were adopted by tho Welfare of the Church Committee urging the starting of a "Go-to-Church" movement and a return to the old tract distributing methods, but with leaflets suited to the times.

' The retirement from the ranks of the active ministry to the position of supernumeraries of the Revs. George Bond, H. R. Dowsbury (Auckland), T. G. Carr (Waihi), Joseph Sharp (Bluff), J. J. Mather (Rangitikci), •and C. H. Standagc (Carterton), was made the occasion of appreciative references to their long and able work. BOARDER BURNED TO DEATH. Nelson, March 1.

The Royal Hotel, a three-storey wooden building in Bridgo street, owned by Dodson and Son and occupied by'K. Cann., licensee, wa,s gutted early this morning. Fhuncis in the back portion unread rapidly. Some of the inmates bad p«lv bare time to escape. Later on a boarder named .Frederick Bloomlield, aged 57, a. native of Australia, was missing, and bis charred remains were I'ounu on the iioor joists. The insurances on the hotel were J;0U0 in the Standard etfice and £100 in the Alliance. KRKKZING WORKS TICMJ'ORAHILi; CLOSING IXMV.N. Nelson, March 4. Owing both to" heavy killing and the shortage of shipping, the i\eJ.snn Freezing Works are closing for a few days, i'ho Karaniea taking a shipment next week will relieve the position considerably. OU.lt CHOPS. Wellington, March -1. Tho .estimated average .yields petacre of held crops for tne, season 1914-15, as shown by a table published in the Gazette, to-night, are as follow: Wheat (bushels) 2o.Wj, oats 30.'i5, barley 27.78. maize 4o.i)S, peas 25.93 ryegrass (lbs) Jl!Uj3, cocksroot 141.51, Chcwing's fescue? -194.12, red clover 151.82, white clover 1-17.31, potatoes (tons) G. 45, turnips Ju.l3, mangolds 2(i.GL. According to returns furnished to the ItegistrarGeneral by post the total estimated yields of tiie principal enms will be.: ( Wheat (bushels) 4,y21,J5 ( J* oats 10,----194,037, barley 509,080, ryegrass (lbs) ■Jl:A)o,U)d, cocksfoot 2,484,169, potatoes (ions) 141,171, turnips 7,778,409, mangolds 257,873. HEARRANG L\"G PORTFOLIOS.

It won officially announced to-night that the Hon.'W. H. Homes has been given the portfolios of Marine and Customs held ur> till January .12 last by Mr 1 ,, . M. 13. f-ishor, and since the hitter's resignation by the Prime Minister.