INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 72, 27 November 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

LPEB UNITED PEEBS ASSOCIATION. Westpobt, This Pay. The Ked Queen plates were scraped for the first time, with the result of 190 ounces 6 pennyweights retorted gold from 137 tons of stone. The boxes were not touched, and the plates, being new, requiring curing. Wellington, This Day. Mr Fisher, the present Mayor, was returned by a majority of 171 over Mr Petherick. The election of the members to represent the policy-holders on the Govern ment Insurance Board will take place ' early next month, and the necessary arrangements respecting the election are now being made. , The Government hare just imported from the English Mint a quantity of new ' silver threepenny pieces and bronze , penny and halfpenny pieces. The Wellington Jockey Club Spring i Meeting was held here to-day. The weather was fine, although rather winday, and there was a capital attendance. 1 Flying Stakes— Ugly Buck 1, Consul 2. * Speculation 3. 1 Hurdles -Wideawake 1, Barbary 2, 1 Liability 3. * Auckland, This Day. During the voyage of the brigantine I Nightingale from Dunedin, Matthew Henry, a Frenchman, died suddenly, and was buried at sea. Arthur Dransfield was found dead in ; bed. At the inquest a verdict of serous ; apoplexy was reiurned. t Wanganui, This Day. * Mr F. M. Spurdle was elected Mayor J by a majority of 200 over Mr JNathan. ' Later. I The information against Spurdle for ■ being concerned in borough work while a ' councillor was dismissed to-day, the information having boen wrongly laid. t Further steps are likely to be taken by Trimms. ] In tiie District Court to-day, the civil ] case Enderby y Bull, claim £150, was nonsuited. | Mabton, This Day. i Lloyd Jones has been elected Mayor - of Marton. i Dunedin, This Day. The eighth annual show of the Otago , Agricultural and Pastoral Association [ was highly successful yesterday. [ The Special Committee of the Otago . Trades and Labor Council appointed to '. consider the feasibility of holding a t Congress of Trade Stock, met last night. The replies from similar organisations \ throughout the colony wore highly satis- ' factory, and it was definitely decided to hold a congress in June 1886, in Dunedin. The Mayoral election to-day resulted ' as follows :— Scoullar, 675 ; 515 ; Spedding 483. Oamabtt. This Day. A young man named Reid, a scavenger, was killed yesterday 'jy his cart falling on him. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.