INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 131, 21 April 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

In* vkitb» rtiM amociatiok. Balcmttha, Thii Day. Mr Tbenwon addressed a large meeting of hi* constituents at i-liatoß last night upon the past session, fully explaining his own action in marine the motion by which the If ini.fjry was defeated. The meeting was eathuniastic in Thomson's fa? or and passed aa maantmous vote of thank* and confidence. Wellington. April 19. A heavy gale act in last night, and about four o.deck this morning half the exhibition building (in eonrse of construction) was blown dewn. The con. tractors estimate the damage at between £400 aad £600. Wxluvotok. This Day.W. Gray. Secretary of the Post Office, hai received a cable stating that the captain of the Cunard steamer Palonyra reports that on March 24th, in the Bay of Bucay, about 2.000 miles north of Cape Fiaisterre. he passed a lifeboat of the Eastern Extension Cable Company* repairing steamer M agnttic. She was in good condition and was fitted with masts and oars but no sails. There was no evidence of the boat hiring been occupied. There is now little doubt but what she foundered at sea. The Government have under «ons:deratinn th' ca<«* of Prcndergast, mh«» waa contacted and »t»utencrd to death at Auckland for murder, and who was re(.•oauueaded to mrrojr. Parhtment will.it is beliercd. be called together in the first werk in Juue. Th«> exprnoe of the defences is estimated at a quarter of a million. Chbhtchcbcv, April 50. Th* brtgantine Omada, which arrired from the Chatbam L»land» yenterday evening, breuglii as pasnenger* Captain Hauiburg-owned barque Pladen, which wa» wrecked on Wangawa Island. Ou Saturday -'amr* Daley, an old and respected settler at Akuroi, was fonnd dead in his lied. He had been in the' habit of taking German chloroform for ■ sleeplessness, and on this occasion be had 1 evidently taken an overdose. . < Dvncdin, April 20. ' A creditors' petition toadjudieiit* David Proud foot, the well knwn contractor, -« bankrupt, came before the regiitrar »nd Adjudication was granted. Proud foot it; at prevent on his waj back from No* ; South Wales, where he has lar^o contracts on hand. ■ ■- '