INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 55, 18 October 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PBB UNITED PBBBS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, This Day. Daring the passage of the Bowena from Mercury Bay to Auckland last night four drunken bashmen, enraged at a refusal of the captain to give them liquor, assaulted him and several of the crew, who tried to arrest them, and then wrecked the saloon. The captain succeeded in confining them in the saloon, and returned to Mercury Bay for police assistance. Here the men were put in irons by the constable and brought on to Auckland. They were lined for drunkennes*. and ordered to pay the damages, amounting to L2OO. N APisfi, This Day. The Municipal Council passed a cordial rote of thanks at its meeting last night to Messrs Ormond, Kusaell. Smith, Locke, Sir G. Whitinore, and the Hon. J. N. Wilson for the serrices they rendered the borough and district in connection with the passing of the Napier Harbour Biil through both Houses of Legislature. At the annual meeting of the Work* ing Men's Club last night, the balancesheet showed the assests to be L 958, and above liabilities. Nelson, This Day. , The search for Gibson has so far been unsuccessful. The search party, however, found his camping ground, where there was found a quantity ot bread and meat, several boiled potatoes, a pot used for cooking, also a boot which he was known to have on when he escaped. Strict watch in now being kept, and no doubt he will shortly be captured.