INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 24, 9 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

♦ PEB UNITED PRESS ABBOCATION. Wellington, This Day. In his report on W. Waring Taylor's estate, the official assignee submits that ' Taylor has brought himself under the penal clauses of the Bankruptcy Act. I The Marine Department state that the schooner Clyde, 29 days out for Rockhampton to Greymouth, and for which the vessel seen bottom up nearKapiti has been taken, was spoken outside Westport last nieht. In the House yesterday, Sir Julius ■ Yogel had to take the oath seated in a chair, in which he still has to wheel him- ■. self about. The master of the barque Grassmere was fined £20 ' for overloading. The Plimsoll mark was several inches submerged. rrDuNRWN, This Day. A presentation of. a largely signed address was made .to Thomas Dick' this morning, requesting: him to re-consider his determination not to .accept a seat in the Legislative Council, if offered. Donald Reid, as. spokesman, pointed out that the retiring Ministry, though unpopular now in consequence of the depression, left this affairs of tbe .country in a much better position that when they took office. Mr Dick in reply declined on the ground that the Council was not a proper sphere for a defeated candidate, and announced his intention, on the first vacancy, of seeking to obtain a seat in the House. Nbw Plymouth, This Day The Taranaki Herald's Stratfod corresjondent writes tHat a survey party, in cutting a line between . ti.e Waingongora road and Pealea river, came on a skeleton with a bill hook alongside. It is supposed to be the rem tins of Edward Hall, who was missed some two or three years ago from Stratford, and never beard of. ■ • ; |