INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 48, 1 October 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

♦■ [PEE UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.] "Wellington, This Day. The vac&ncy caused in the Defence Department by the death of Colonel Reader will not be filled up at present. The regulations under the New Zealand Forest Bill are being drawn up, and will be gazetted in a day or two. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Exhibition to-day it was decided not to extend the Exhibition season until the end of .November, but to bring it to a close on the 31st of October. The Customs returns tor the whole colony for September are not yet com plete. Th«y are expected to reach £125,000, which i» much above the aver age. Poet Ghalmkrs, September 30. Arrived— Arawa, from Plymouth. The tune occupied on the voyage was 41 day* 21 hours 22 minutes, from which stoppages amounting to 1 daj 21 hours and 32 minutes have to be deducted, leaving (he actual steaming time 43 days. All on board are well. Acckland, Thi* Day. The circus proprietor his received a cnbl<* from Australia stating that th<> hors-.-s and other animals wi 11 be adtnitt ed to iHther Sydney or Me' bourne. They intend to take them on there, and afterward* come back I© New Zealand, unless the Colonial Secretary withdraws restriction. Napier, This Day. The Chief Postmaster, Mr John Grujbb, has instituted proceedings against the Kvening News to recover datnnges for libel. Chbistchitbch, This Dny Sir Julius Yogel ha* accepted an invitation to a banquet to himself and Mr Holme*, members for Christchurch south which will take place about the 2L»t ot October.