INTEPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 71, 17 November 1883, Page 2

IN TEPROVINCIAL.

[jP£B VNITJBP PBEBS ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, "Ibis day. The Wellington Freezing Company shipped 5021 sheep and lambs' carcases by the lonic, and 144 pieces of beet. The Wellington Meat Preserring and Refrigerating Company (limited), capital £50,000, was registered to-day. It takes ovpr the butchering and roeat-presemng business of J. aid H. Barber, and Woods, Crosbie and Co. It is understood (hat the official assignees will meet in Wellington about the 3rd of December to interview Mr Conolly, and also to confer amongst themselres as to the uniform mode of procedure. C. Y. O'Connor has been appointed Under-Seeretary for Publio Works, rice John Knowles, resigned. His appointment will date from the 17th. To-day the Marine Department receired a telegram from the Harbormaster at Nelson, to the effect that the steamer Grafton carried away the beacon at the French Pass at 10 o clock this morning, i Dpnedin, This Day. j The body of Charles Lockhart, aged 54, was found off end of Uattray street this morning. Deceased, who was a fisherman, and of intemperate habits, has been missing since the 7th inst. When last seen, he was in dingy making for a lighta in the bay. The dingy was found capsised next day. jLcceland. Thi« Day Two men, Morgan and Webb, who left Aratipu in a boat in a gale of wind for Te Kumi, are missing.