TOWN EDITION

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 81, 20 March 1883, Page 2

TOWN EDITION

SPECIAL TO "STAR." [BY ELECTMC TELEGBAPH. — COPYBIGHT.] BEUTES'S TELEGBAMB. Received March 20. 2.20 p.m.] London. March 19. Government have announced in Parliament that it is not intended to send any more war vessels to VI adagascar. The Home Secretary announced in the House of Common? to-day that orders have been given fjor an increase of the Metropolitan Police. Received March $2fO, 3 p.m.] M&lboubne, This Day. It is understood that Copeland, Minister for Works, has resigned his portfolio in consequence of strictures passed on his conduct at the banquet on Saturday last (St. Patrick's Day) when he was intoxicated, and made au injudicious speech in favor of Irishmen.

(PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) i Chbistchubch, This Day. At a meeting o! the Waimate Board, yesterday, statements were made that C. C. Dudley, the Clerk, had failed to account for certain sums of money received by him, also that the renfc book was missing, and that an important page had been torn out of another book. The committee appointed to instruct a solicitor to proceed against Dudley for deficiencies, stated that Dudley was formerly Town Clerk at Kaiapoi, and legal proceedings are pending against him by the J own Council, for missing books. Ac. Yesterday Major Atkinson informed the Chairman of theßailway League that a Commission has been appointed to report upon the best route for a railway for here and West Coast. H- E. Purching, chemist, of Kaiapoi, has been missing for several days. Search parties who have been out can find no traces of him.