INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 75, 3 December 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PBB UNITED PREBB ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, December 2. , The principal Kingite chiefs have issued a manifesto, ad^resseed to the Maoris and Europeans, protesting against ! the gift of 400,000 acres at Bangitoto made by the tribes of Ngatimakore to .; the Waikatos. i Mr Sala leaves for Sydney to-night. : The Thames gold returns for November are 10,2050z5, the largest yield for eight years. The Cambria Company contributed 7332. • ■ : Napieb, December 1. The New by-law designed to pat down the Salvation Army nniaanee cam* into force to-day. The "Army" anncanced its intention of defying the |by-l»w, land accordingly marched to-aigiit with more hideous noise and absvrd antics than ever. The police will prosecute thea at once. As showing f the general desir* j from all parts of the colony to put down the nuisance, the Napier Comncil has reeeiyvd apphcati»ns from nearly half the municipalities in the colony for copies of the bylaw. \ ■• December 2. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Margaret Nester, an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum, who had persistently refused for forty days to take f ood.| A verdict of -death 'frpin voluntary starvation was returned. j , ThefourifMaprisi.of Wairoa who were su^erijbg n from ; the effect of bating bread in which strvenine had been put by austake for soda, .have recovered. An mquosfc was held on the. body, of the fifth iiative, and flj' yerdip^' of death from acciidenta^jw^mng was returned. ..;,;, -. : : : sChbistohobch, Deeembtr 2. A granary, With ohaiff- cutting iglantjand 1000 baSheU'of wheat, belonging to Mt' B. Daly;' Bw ; annaioa, was destroyed by fire. : It was ensured for £300 in the New Zealand." > •" • ■ ''.■•■' ''•■•;•' \ ' : George Crattv, aged 24, w*g accidentally killed.', while shooting, at Lebon's Bay. He was crawling round a log drag ging his gun a'fter'-hiax. when it went off. the charge entered his head. . . ; Wrllihchon, This Day. The Government have decided not to appoint a New Zealand Secretary to the Indian Colonial Exhibition. , The Hon. Mr Ballance will address his constituents at Wanganui early in January, after which he visits the south.