INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 49, 26 April 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[PEB CNITKD PREP 3 ABSOCIATI«X.I Gisbobne, This Day. Three skeletons, one with a bullet hole in the skull, hare been found at Tolago Bay. They are supposed to be Maoris killed in Te Kooti's raid. A large native college is to be built here, at a cost of £1400. Major Sopata has written to the Government, declining to receive th«» reduced pension of £10) n year. It is reported that Te Kooti has written to the natives, announcing his intention to visit their district shortly. The Europeans here object to bis doing so. Auckland, This Day. The Te .\nan brought £150,000 worth of gold for the Union Bunk. His Excellency the Governor opened the Society of Arts Exhibition to-niglit t and delivered an inaugural address. There was a large attendance* He also presented the medal* and certificates of successful competitor*. Eferr Schmidt's handsomo silver medal for the best musical cempesition was won by Thomas Wood (a son of Render Wood) the second by Frank Edger. and the third by " Delta" (name unknown). At an extraordinary meeting of the ! shareholders of the Kotorua Railway Company, a resolution was carried reducing the capital from £400.000 to £300,000 by cancelling 100,000 shares. Chbistchurch, April 25. Forty two bankrupts under the new Act are awaiting the Judge's appointment of a day to apply for their discharge. The Firth of Lorn and liialto have 26,399 sack* of wheat. The Wellington (ship) has 7644 frozen sheep. Messrs T. S. Weston and P. Guinness are spoken of as candidates for Christohurch North, and Messrs Weston and ; Dunlop for the Avon.