INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 92, 17 April 1883, Page 2

IN TERPROVINCI AL.

[PEB UNITED PBES9 ASSOCIATION. J Wellington, This Day. A small case, which has been identified as part of the cabin furniture of the schooner Hannah Barratt, has been picked up near Sinclair Head. Other wreckage which is believed to have belonged to her has also been washed ashore. There is now no doubt that she has been lost along with her crew. Timabu, This Day. Majoi Atkinson addressed a crowded meeting this evening in the new Theatre ooyal. He spoke for an hour and a half on pauperism, and at the conclusion received a hearty vote of thanks. Haweba, This Day. A meeting was held on Saturday evening, at Normanby, to consider the advisableness of starting hop culture. A number of settlers resolved to go into the venture, and agreed to engage the services of a practical man to give things a start. Reeiton, Thia Day. Mr E. Shaw addressed a crowded meeting here on Saturday evening ; Mr Bremnan in the chair. A unamimous vote of confidence in Mr Shaw was passed. Auckland, This Day. John Moore, a printer, is reported missing from the cutter Lancashire Lass at Whangamate. He is believed to be drowned. Two cases of alleged child abduction are reported, but the police declined to interfere. The persons interested intend to initiate private prosecutions, aud have retained Mr E. Hesketh.