INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 2, 16 June 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

.EBB VNITBB PBBSS AMOOIATIOE. Wbllinoton, Jane 15 The Hutt Park Railway Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. Mr Booth's temperance missioa closes nn Thursday night. In his address yesterday Mr Booth said his missioa had aot been so successful as he had a right to expect. At Mr Booth's mission to-night an immense number of Volunteers paraded to hear his lecture oa reminiscences of soldier life. Eight of tke officers present, including the chairman, Major Crowe, and a large number ef Volunteers, took the pledge. Chbistchvbch, Jane 15. The brense statue, by Mr Larson, ef the late Mr W. S. Moorhouse. which it is proposed to erect in the Public Gardens here, is expected te arrive shortly either by the Aorangi or Rimu-. take. This Day. At a meeting of the medical profession sympathy was expressed with Dr Btewart m the attack made upon bim by the Wellington Evening Press. Opinions were expressed that the article was malignent and untruthful, and that Dr Stewart should at once commence an action against the Press, and it was resolved to forward these resolution to the Government. Nahbb, This Day. Tbe homestead of Joseph Hslleti, of Pukotiri, has been totally destroyed by fire. A piano and seme furniture was saved. Insured ia the Union— house, £360; furniture, £I*s. Intiboaboiu, This Day. The bakehouse, stables, harness, and horses of J. E. Black, at Winton; were destroyed by fire at one o'clock yesterday morning. At tho police court today Jas. Mabin, a run-holder, was charged ea remand witk having admitted be set fire to seme stacks on the farm of a settler named o'Doauell. After evidence as to the character of the prosecution the ease was dismissed* Dunedin, Tbis Day. At the iaquest oa John Bay, found dead at Lovell's Flat, a verdict ef died, by poison was returned, but the evidence did aot show hew the poison was administered.