INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 134, 28 April 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

. L'MB UNITED FBEBB ASSOCIATION. Wellington. April 27. Messrs Levin and Co. have received instructions from the Admiral tj to load the Coptic with 2000 ton* of coal, and to retain the officers and crew and sufficient stewards to attend on about twenty saloon passengers. An extraordinary Gazette was published tli is afternoon further proroguing Parliament to Friday, Bth May. - ' Fourteen hundred and four names hare been placed on the first-class niilitiii [roll for th«city. ■! " •■■:'■••• This Day. Col: Hewitt s»t having accepted the position iof Coinaandant of the New Zealand Volunteers,, the appointment has b<en conferred on Sir G. 8. Whitmore who w v now in Wellington comtulting with the Government. The Government intend having a great military display all over the colony on the 25th. May. Tt is understood that negotiations with v Col. Hewitt were broken off owing to the difficulty tf settling conditions with him, and also that Government deemed" it advisable to have an officer in command on the t pot without delay. Whitmort's appeintment will be iul)ject to the approval of Parliament, and it will thei be d o led whether liis accepting .the position will affect bis seat in the Legislative Council. ' ' : Government have received resolution* ; passed at Fiji asking for annexation to New Zealand. Government hare, the; question in hand, but nothing, i<c decided i as to what course will be adopted. " i Latost information received by the | Government from the Agent-General! •tales that affair* with Russia are still in j suspense. " ' ■ "; ; Wkstjobt, April 27; ; •lames E- ChalHs died in the lockup,' where he was eontiued 1 for drunkenness. ' James Watts, cattle-drover, dropped i d<>ad near the Butler Road when search*! ing far cattle m the bush. ; • ■ Chbistchdbch, April 27. ' In the Divorce < ourt to-day his Honor, Mr Justice Johnston granted a decree absolute in the case of Tole v. Tole. and, others. A rule nisi was granted in the ea»f f>f Smith t. Sifnith nod Murphy and; Clifford (co-respondents); Ihe "defend- ' ant had bei»« of drunken habits before she committed adultery with the, co-i respondents. ! Leslie, the ship apprentice who was; stabbed by J. Greetf carpenter of thei bnrque Colleen, at Lyttelton, on Satur-' d:<y, is still in a, precarious state Green; wns broright before the Hesidoht Magi*! tr- te's Court to»day. and remanded till' Wednesday. „ - , . : W. P. 1 Pearson, M.H.B: for Ashley,: add essed his constituents at Oxford last night. He <?xpr«»N<«ed himself a general; supporter of the Government, and wariuly commended the n^ive and defence' pioli ell's,' but 'opposed the 'district railways scheme. . , I;; I » A 'I/ (' tySPh** 1 * /April 28. : The s.s. Taupo, which left for southern ports at 6 p.m. yesterday, broke her shaft when,, off Port. ;Bodney, and was towed back by the steamer Clansman this morning.- ■• ( , /,- -j ; . , , ; : Sarah' Thomas, nged id, an inmate of M'H^^^P OW !P>. J^^^k JMi???* 1 ? 1 ? haf ; attempted suicide 'by stabbing herself. ; .;-,/« /. : r ' iWiKOAiittioThis Day. ; The brigantine J. S. Lucas from New. ' castle with coalo ~\* ashore at the SouHk Spii^roKihe-^ailkiiigiJlUrjei^ i. expected to come off to*night.