Latest Telegrams.

Western Star, Issue 965, 18 July 1885, Page 2

Latest Telegrams.

[Press Association.! Auckland, Friday.

The tea industry is thriving in Fiji. It is intended, as local requirements ure supplied, to export to Now Zealand. The late reductions in the price of sugar considerably affected the industry in Fiji, and o/.v largo firm has sustained great losses. Professor Aldis has resigned the chairmanship of the Hoard ot Education. f *"■ I ' f ..

Mary Balls, Mangare Maori, aged 13, who committed suicide at AVaimea, did so because it appears her Father .would not let her marry a young maori with whom she was cohabiting. The Suva reports do sign of the missing - schooner, Waiapu. The Aniline search is also DuNfJimN, Friday.

Lawson, who escaped from the custody of Detective Fade while being convoyed as a prisoner to Invercargill, was captured at (Shag Valley 7 to-day. Lawson, alias 'Roberts, was wanted by the police here :omc time bade on a charge uf vagcLiicy, Ue has been

persistently tracked on his journey through the country, and appears to have thought it dangerous to pass through Dunedin, as it is known !u slept one night in an outhouse at Kensington. John Newman was brought up today, charged with stabbing a fellowworkman, and remanded. .Stallard. the man wounded, has recovered sufficiently to leave the Hospital. ■. /I T WKLBiitGtiou", Friday. Replying to Mr Hirst to-day, Sir J. Vogel said he was sending an officer of the Department to report as to the desirableness, or otherwise, of the connection of Hirstfield and Riverton by telegraph.