INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 4, 19 June 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

k [PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.! Blenheim, This Day. ■ Mr Connolly has issued his address i seeking re-election for Picton. He states ' that although by an unexpected combin • ation a vote of want of confidence was passed, yet his confident belief is that the vote did not represent the feeling of the country. JDunedin, This Day. Mr W. Watten, a member of the local Press, will oppose Mr Green for , Dunedin East. ► Mr Douald Stuart does not intend ' contesting any seat. Captain. Baldwin is out for Dunedin East. Mr David McKellar, of Tapanui, is likely, .to con- * test Dnnstan. Hokitika, This Day. A large requisition is being got up throughout the district to John Bevan. of the firm of Pollock and Bevan, of this town, to stand in the Liberal interests at the forthcoming- election for the House of Representatives., Chbistchubch, This Day. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cable that the British King arrived. at Rio yesterday. The refrigerator was working well, and the meat is tn prtme oonditipn. Two apprentices of the barque Examiner while at Greymouth parcook of some tinned jam bearing a Hobart label, but not liking the flavour did not take muoh. Both were seized with a sudden sickness, and one was so bad -that he had to be' put on shore oa her arrival at Lyttelton. The symptoms denote poisoning, apparently the result of the tinning process. It is reported that,T. J. Joynt will/be-* 1 askdd'ro 1 appose !Fi' ; G. Gwifck, sdltcifctf, for St. Albahilhd W; H. KiiHet, 1 M.H:R. for Stanmore has been 'requested to become a candidate for Picton where he at one time was H.M J ■ ■;:*: /. v. • ; . It is stated a requisitions being signed asking Sir Julius- Yogel to stand for Christchurch North. i Auckland, -This Day. Fiji news bas been received that the loss of life by the stranding of the Coolie ship Syria was 56 Coolies, viz., 31 men, 15 women. 8 boys or girls, and 2 infants. The vessel iras valued at £5000, and was syld for £115. , . . * -A ■ ,; Thambs, This Day. • '-Matters political arCwarmiftg up; hf'ri? '■ consequent upon the dissolution. '^'For ' rite borough quife^i number of candidate-'* ire e.xpected, uicludihif Messrs Speight, Fraser, '.Kilgour, .VlcCulj^ujjiir ml .Viac«owsn. all local men. The fight really lies between the two first named, but no one has announced himsellasyei. ForCoromandclCadman is fully expected' to have a walk over.