TELEGRAPHIC

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 142, 13 October 1880, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC

Interprovincial.

The 'case 'Colbeck, M.H.H., y. Robert , son, claim £'dooo, lias been withdrawn. The 'real issue was 'whether, under the purchasing 'clause'in'the 'lease, plaintiff and defendant -was,-bound to sell at. the - price covenanted, T2s 6diper'aere. The -■present value of 'the land is stated to be £o per 'acre, basis of settlements that /plaintiffs 'Were to have paid at 'the original price, and -defendant do Ipay costs.

! doe, the A T ew Hibrede's'murderer,'under ! sentence of death, haVbeen suppliedwilh .tobacco, j Four dilicials of the -.Native v ollic'e, "Auckland, have received notice-that their j services are to be dispensed with. The timber trade in Auckland is now brisk, and the schooner Hura is loading toiigued and grooved timber and.join'ery : for Sydney and the .KehiTvvortn with ! sashes ami doors for Lyttelton. The publication of the N. Z. Muse has been suspended through ; a dissolution'of partnership. j Alichael Cook has leased froin the I Auckland City Council a site on which he iutends erecting a glass manufactory which will be started-immediately. A beautiful- cutter yacht is being built by Thomas Nicoi, on the North Shore, I for the purpose of- re presenting Auckland in the Intercolonial -.Regatta which is to be held in Hobson's -Bay on the loth January next. -She -will, by her size, ' be qualified to sail in the first-class- match for the £2OO prize. Sul>lnspector Kenny, of the Thames made an important seizure of smuggled beer and spirits at AVhauganiata, near Katikati, estimated at -£;3oO. -The cases were found buried in Ike sand 'near Gainboro's store. The engineer of the Charles Edward, a man of twenty years' New Zealand experience, reports that the Wesport coal is the best for steaming, purposes he has ever used, in the colony. A lot of coal is now in the shoots at the'"wharf awaiting shipment. Y'ouug Wilcott, the boy Who'was-in-jured by the New Hebredes murderer,-is progressing favourably. The 'Rev. 'AY. Fletcher, -8,A., late ! a YVesleyan missionary in Fiji, accompanied by the Rev. W. Wallis, paid a visit On Saturday morning to the Fijian murderer, Joe. who now lies under sentence of death. They found the criminal in a complete state of ignorance in regard to spiritual concerns, and quite regardless of future consequences. Air Fletcher repeats his visit to-morrow. A gentleman in Auckland stctes that he was acquainted with the tribe of the group Joe belongs to, anil he say's that probably more outrages on traders will take place when the news of his execution reaches the tribe.

A special meeting of -Canterbury Chamberof Commerce was held on Friday to consider the report of the committee on the new tariff. The report 'was adopted, and ordered to be-forwarded ro the premier and -Minister for Lands. The chief recommendation relates to the appointment of a-commission of railway experts and practical men of business, to take evidence and draw up a scheme of rates ■on "an ' ordinary mercantile and lucrative basis."