INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 76, 7 June 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PEB UNITED PBEP3 ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, This Day. Mr Bryce has received notice from his solicitor that Mr Kusden has lodged a plea of justification as a defence to the action for slander. The Hon. Major Atkinson is confined to his house with bronchitis and unless anything of importance occurs will not be out until ' uesday. Arrived, German barque Phoenix from London, ninety-seven days. On the 20th February an apprentice named Kretetz, while making a sail fast, lost his footing, and fell overboard. The night was dark and wet, and a gale was blowing. The life-buoys were thrown over, but the lad was never seen again. The Hon. W. Johnston has resigned his seat (which he held without portfolio) in the Ministry. It is probable that a member of the Legislative Council will be appointed to succeed him. It is said that Mr J. C Richmond will be called to the Mm stry in the Upper House in place of v r Johnston, resigned. Auckland, This Day. Charles Anderson, a Russian or Dane, was lost overboard from the cutter Four Sisters, off Tiritiri. He was alone on deck at the wheel. On the master going i on deck at 3 o'clock am. he found Anderson missing. Tho insolvency of Moncrieff, at Ohinemutu, is considered suspicious. Major Green has laid an information against the Natives who assaulted him at Cambridge. It is reported here that the proprietor of one of the hotels to which a license was refused intends to issue a writ against the Licensing Commissioners for £2000 damages. • The City School Committees have refused to endorse Mr Stewart's (M.H.R ) circular for an alteration in the Education Act. . CfTBiSTcntTHCH, This Day. The wife of Mr Berry Cass has cut her throat. The police have sent to make' inquiries. At present no cause is assigned. ■ : Mr Robert Heafron Rhodes 's will was proved to-day. The property is under, £600,000. Judge Johnston, in the Bankruptcy Court, commented strongly on the, absurdity of the present provisions for: the public examination of bankrupts. • Gbeymotjth, June 6. A Chinaman cut his throat with a penknife on board- the Wakatipu, about 4 o'clock this morning. The wound is believed not to be fatal. ■ . floss, This Day. Abo'it twenty pounds of rich specimens from a quartz reef at Cedar Creek were taken to Greymouth on Wednesday, and '.caused some excitement there. Tenders have been accepted for the erection of a small battery at the reefs. Some very rich -stone was brought to Boss last night. Dunedin, This Day. The infant child of Mrs Sterling, of South Dunedin. was severely burned while being washed on Wednesday evening '*: f Tberchild died yesterday. The matter was not reported to- a doctor in the meantime. ...--:"■