INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 82, 20 December 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[.PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, This Day. The settlement of the Patetere Blocks will be proceeded with actively, Mr Kic assuming charge ol the operations as local director. Up to the present, the company has spent L24.000 in improvements and general expenses. Wellington, This Day. The Hon. the Premier and Mr Tole. Minister of Justice, will arrive here the first week in January. The regulations and particulars of runs, which will shortly be offered for lease, will be gazetted next week. The Colonial Life Assurance Society have purchased a business site here for Lis,obo. The Government have received a cable from the Agent-General ndvising t'-em that the executive of the Colonial Exhibition for 1886 have increased the space allotte I ro % - evr Zealand to 10,000 feet. Sailed — Coptic, for London. Oamaru. This Day Shortly after 2 o'clock ths afternoon a fire was discovered in the forehold of tho ship Marlborough, which has nearly completed loading frozen meat for London. By means of the ship's engines ose the five w.is quickly extinguished. A quantity <>f frozen meat was damaged, but the vessel suffered very little injury. Dunedin. This Day. Vandyke has been committed fi-r trial for attempting to shoot Miss Wadsworth at North East Valley. Bail was allowed, himself in £200 and two sureties of £150 i