INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 74, 2 December 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

|_peb united pbuss association. Dctneimn, This Day. £14,379 was put through the tolalisator yesterday. Last night's Hcald says it is rumored that the Hou. Mr Sioot inieads to br-og an aciiou agniost a lending Du-ied'n. newspaper i or a'le^ed Jibel >n a leading article recently published. Chbistchttbch, This Day. An influential meeliog re the West Coast railway was held last evening, when it was dec'ded 10 uodenake the preiiin'U ary arrangements for the cons' ruction of the line, and a coinmiliee was appointed to take ihe necessary steps. The meeting was private, aad details have not transpired. BiiCLUTHA, This Day. Frank Mori.oo, carpenter, of Dauedia, who bad been wo«'k'og he<"e for some mouths disappeared jesierday. Circumstances lead to a suspicion of drowning m the river. Axjccoand, This Day. The Evening Slar opened theif new offices in Shorlland and Fort-street today. The building is a palaHal one of four stories, and hay-ng a frontage of 89 feet by J57 deep. The cost is £20,000. The Star issued a litho of the building, and ia a descriptive account published a statement of two accountants showing the circulation (o be 9566 copies daily A hoMuess camp meeting was held at Port Albert, las. ing for several days, at which some extraordinary scenes of religious frenzy are stated to have occurred. James Evans was fined £10 and costs, or two months' imprisonment with hard labour, for playing '" under and over" at the Takapuna races. At the quarterly meeting of the City North Licensing Committee the solicitor ' for the Licensed Victuallers' Association made an application for extension of hours in hotels from 10 to 11 p.m. The application was refused. Gisbobnb. This Day. Major Eopata is seriously ill. The mate and three men going off to their ship in a boat were capsized, but the men were rescued by a boat from another vessel. A small boat was also capsized on the bar, and the occupant, named Bush, rescued in a very exhausted state. Wellington, This Day. Mrs Francis Wordsworth known ai the " Heroine of the Croaets," she being the only female who escaped at the wreck of the Strathmore, and for many months participated in the hardships and sufferings of the survivors until rescued, died on Saturday evening, aged 58. The Hon. the Premier left for the South yesterday afternoon. The only Ministers now in Wellington are Sir Julius Yogel and the Hon. Mr Buckley. Tlie Minister of Public Works is expected to return from the South on Wednesday, and AJr Baliance obout Friday.

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