INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 138, 7 May 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

IPBB VHIT» FBKM ASSOCIATION. , Wbllinotoit , May 6. It has net yet been decided whether the militia will be called out, but, in any case, unless hostilities occur between ' England and Russia, they will only be called oat at Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, and Dunedin. The Governor has commuted the sentence of death passed on Prendergant, the Pokeno murderer, to imprisonment for life. This Day. The Government propose, should Parliament approve of the colony being represented at the Colonial Exhibition in London, to appoint Dr Haaxt to hare charge of exhibits, but the Agent-General will b« the Chief Cnmimssion<r. , The Hons. Buckley and Tole, who are commi<mioner« to take evidence im the Brjce-Ruxdcn caw, will leuve f>r Wanganui en Saturday, and will commrme taking endence on the 11th inst. Witnesses from Rnntritikei, Wangnnui, and Parihnka will be examined and subse quenily the bodies ef persons alleged to hare bci>n ' ruthlessly murdered, will be exhumed. M iaixtershn vedra wn up a memorandum on the proposed Imperial Act for con* stitutingfonlAustralasian Federal Council memorandum, which sugj{e*t» re c<>nuifipraMon of the question, in bein^ circulnted ullorer the c«l-nj and Auntralia. Arrired, Hhip Lrttelton, Captain Boonman, from Lomlan. 90 days. Auckland, May 6. The Gleoelg, sframer, with two uailinj; remelu, hare left for Kiwau to endeavour to raise the steamer McGregor and bring her to Auckland. The member* of a ' nnraber of city churches are up in arms agaiast the movement to establish a relunteer company in cennection with these churches. At two meetings of the clergy, for the purpose of discussing the matter, resolutions were passed discountenancing the formation •( i volunteer corps as pro* posed. ■■- Gisbobkk, This Day. The schooner Comet, which treat ashore in the river, has been g«t off. Mabton. This Day. A meeting of the unemployed was held hero last night to protest against the action «f the contactor for Porcfwa section of the Central Railway in the matter of subletting, nad also delay in beginning work. About 200 were preseat,-and a resolution was passed that the Mayor be iaterviewed and that representatations bo made to tho U mister Public Works. Invkbcaboiil. This Day. At 4 o'clock this morninga Bve.roonied cottage,' owned and occupied by Mr JLooniy, was destroyed by fire. The honso was insured for £250 and furniture for £100 in the National. : .