INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 117, 19 March 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

! LWB VNITID PBBBB AB.SOCUTIOX. '. - ;: Wbuingtov March 18. A Gazette eztraordiuary was insned this afterneoß, containing a proclamation further pmref uing Parliament from March 19th to Tuesday, the 28th of April. Chbistchvbch, March 18. A deput Ation of the uneuiplojed waited on Sir Julias Vojel this afternoon. :• Th« Colonial Treasurer assured them that New Zealand as a whole was fairly prosperous, and it was a mistake to imagine that the harvest had been a total failure. He promised the Mayor a donation of £25 towards any fund Mr tiulbert might raise towards the relief ef private distress. ; In the cricket match, Banks v. Insnr> ance Companies, C. Strnnge. of the Midland Club scored 220 runs. . This is the longest itcere yet made in the Colonj. , , Woopviwjt, This D^iy. A'Mcead Special Settlement Association has been formed here to take Up *tx thousand acres within five miles of Weodville. An association has alxo been tormed at Danevirkeand 5000 acres have, been applied for. The VYoodYille Cheese and Bacon factory is a financial success, the profits on the season being so far at the rate of over 10 per cent. Bacoa! caring has not boen undertaken this season, but will be during next. Another factory is spoken of as b«ing started shortly in the ricinity/ ' ','■, J '"' ... „ i • 1 Aucklanp, This Pay; : ' •' , . < ■ » . j *'} - ■ ■ .• ■ Sbeehan, charged, with the Castletowa Roche murder, has been committed on the charge to Mount 1 Eden BaolfoT 15 days, rthen a writ of habeas cfrrpus can be obtained for his removal Home. : : . ' The Rotprua for aduth took 35 Armed [Tonstabulary, from Waikato.toiearn big {un drill at^ Wellington. „ „ iIKW PLYjtocTß', March 18,; 1 About 2000 natives were present at { he Parihaka 'meeting ' yesterday, but 'a here w§s ;no , jspeecliifying during- the. I lay,' Te Whiti declining -.to give an ad. j £ Ipnrps on accpunt , or Europeans; being n niwrat., ''A great fen st* took /place and' w lie waiterH were in liveries. A number n •f Waikato natives were present, and a m trivate korero - took plnce last eremiig. 'p 7he.Maori!< have not ret taken possession pi f the Armed Constabulary quarters at ft