INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 110, 25 February 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PBB UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, February 24. At % meeting of the Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company, the balanca-sheet, which showed the loss to be nearly £9000, wa« adopted, and it was decided to carry on the business with the understanding that the shareholders are to be again called togeiher in May to consider the company's operations between the present time and that dale This Day. The Government are taking proceedings ajra'n<JtS'»m<» farm-r< in the northern Wnirarapa d; strict to compel them to clear their runs of the ra'ibit p-st. Tin* Government hiver- ceired trle^raras stating the New Plymouth district is clean of scab. Th •■ only infected run in New Plymouth is the Clarence Eun, which has been taken possession of by the Government tor the purpose of cleaning it. The Alamoda left 'Frisco for Auck* land an the 24th in«t. (one day late), with the English mails of the 2Sth January ; ami the Marepoa arrived at Sm Francisco ou the 22nd inst. (time table date), with t'oloninl mails of 22:i4 February. Tl-.e cricket match, Hawke* Bay v. Wellington, wa« resumed at noon. In the second innings the visitors have lost 6 wickets for 34 runs. Masterton, This Day. Cardinal .Koran was entertained by Father Tracy at Masterton yesterday. Mm Neil son reports to the Wairarapa police that her daughter, Annie Neilson, who ha-|been missing tome lime, returned home last night. She ssates that she «ras cruelly treated|by her Wellington •mployer. and tried to escape, but was captured, and conveyed to the Asylum, where »be had be»n detained 3 months this week. She alleges that in consequence of the publicity given to this case the Asylum authorities returned her to her late employer, who sent her back to her parents in Master t on.