INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
Lpbb united pbbm association. Auckland, July 1. Extensive defalcations aro alleged to have been discovered in the account* of one of the officers of the H. and C. B. Society. He is believed to have left by the Te Anau for Sydney. Charles Webster was te-day charged with the mere serious offence of rape instead of indecent assault. He was remanded. The landlady of the Manakau Hotel was, at the time of the offence, in Auckland, and the house was in charge of the servants. Wellington, This Day. The body of a man was fonnd in the harbour this morning, name unknown. Two fixed deposit receipts on the Bank of New Zealand, Masterton, amounting to one hundred and! fifty fire pounds, together with two £5 notes ana some silver was found in his pocket. A fire broke out at 1.30 this morning in the preserving department of the Gear Meat Preserving Company. The building was completely gutted. The fire is supposed to have originated by the heat from one of the boilers setting fire to the ' woodwork. A short time ago the same J building was found on .fire from the same I cause. The total insurance on the building, plant, stock, and fittings is £3,388. The amount of damage has not yet been j estimated. Arrived — Aorangi from Auckland. • The diver has completed his exauuna- ■ tion of the lonic. He reports that there i is not a scratch on the vessel's bottom, j It is surmised the vessel must have struck something very soft, probably a sand book. > The Native Land Court at Palnenton. ! yrftterday. awarded the Crown 42,000 j acres ol the c lebrated Mangatainoko : block in the Forty Mile Bush. The whole i look in 60,000 acres, and the 42,000 ncres awarded represents indivicU | nal shares which the Government have , bought. The block has been under nege- 1 tiation mnce 1872, and v magnificent land for settlement. At a meeting of the Exhibition Comauttee this morning it was resolved that it it inexpedient that alooholio liquors be sold at the Exhibition.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 9, 2 July 1885, Page 2
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