INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 46, 19 April 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[PBR UNITED PREPS ASSOCIATt*N.I Wellington, This Day. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon Thomas J. Glew, publican, was committed for trial for perjury. Tho offence is alleged to have been committed in a civil ca»e in the Resident Magistiate's Court, br the accused swearing 1 that a cheque bearing his name was not signed by him, and thafc ifc wa-s a forgery. Bail was allowed, himself in £100 and two sureties of £50 each. In the Divorce Courfc yesterday afternoon a rule absolute was granted in the case Climo v Climo. In the ca«e Muncaster v Muncaster (Blenheim) a rule nisi was granted. The writ for the Thorndon seat, which was issued thia morning, has been withdrawn in consequence of the prrlling places not yet having been appointed by the Returning Officer, who is absent from Wellington. He returns today and the writ will be issued m the afternoon. Palmerston North. This Day. At the public meeting last night resolutions wero passed requesting the member for Manawatu to urge the Government to put a sum on the Estimates to begin the railway al Palmerston to connect the East and West Coasts, and inviting the Wellington members to co-operate. NAr-iER. This Day. A wool shed on Drower's, estate, W{dpukurau, was burnt down last night. Nothing was saved. The building was insured for £250 in the National, but the j losses are above the insurance. Auckland, This Day. At a meeting of the stewards of the ; Racing Club the protest of Woodnymph ( against Xrupp and Necklace, in the Ellerslio Plate, asnot carrying the penalty, ' was disallowed. The protest against '■ Billy-goyby.'em in the Steeplechase < getting second money was overruled, its , his failure to jump the hurdles was dne to . the hurdles being removed for the next race. It was decided to frame a rule 1 staling the time which horses would be 1 allowed to finish a steeplechase in after ] the fi:;st had come in. A resolution was passed condemning tho conduct of the sergeant in charge of the police during ' the fracas at lhe Consolation IJu'j'.'.