TELEGRAPHIC.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4593, 15 March 1893, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

♦— .. ; . i! ■"",' [Spbci4.li to Fbess association.! THE AGENT.QENEEABSHIP. MELBOURNE,. March 14. Mr Duncan Gillies has accepted .-the ' position of. Agent-General in London for Victoria.

[P Pb«8B 48S0CrATIONi] TIVEi LANDS; WELLINGTON*. Mtaaaß 14. The Hutt County Council to-day diacueaed a circular <• f e om the Auckland Native Land Law Seform League-, and carried a resolution affirming; the-, necessity for the enactment, at the next session of Parliament, of an effective measure of reform of the Native land laws, and eim.plicity and economy of procedure in connection therewith. f ALCOHOLIC POISONING-. At an inquest to-day on the body of a married woman named Bridget E. Moor, a verdict that death was the result of alcoholic poisoning waa returned* This ia the second verdicb fit a similar - natore within a fortnight. ' . .; MISS SHAW.. . DUNEDIN, , Masob 14. Miss Shaw, travelling correspondveat of the London Times, is at present in Du&edin, having arrived by the- ManapouriV She did intend making rather a lengthened visit, but has received advices- which necessitate her leaving for Canada- by the next San Francisco mail. Slie leaves for the north to-morrow, and on Sunday reaches Wellington, where she hopes to meet some of the Colony 'd political loaders. PEBSONAL. Intimation has been reoeived that Dr W. L. Christie, the first student from the Medical School to take the M.D: and M.B. degrees, who recently -went Home, has received the diploma of M.R.C.5.,. London.