INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 134, 22 April 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

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Wkllinotoa, April 21

At a meeting of the City oune; , Mi<Mayor, in presenting the annual report, •aid the estimated expenditure for the year w%s £52,968. and the receipt* £50,294. tearing a debit balance of £2674.

An influential depatation from thr Wairarapa distriot waited on the Minuter for Justice with a petition signed by 798 residents praying for the release of John Free body.

I he Salvation Army are establishing a home fur fallen women.

The Gorernraent have received a letter from the Waimea Bailway Company, asking that further concessions be granted in taking over the line. The Government have replied, making a final offer for taking over the railway but the terms are uot made public.

This Day. The Supreme Court han been occupied for the last two days in hearing the case of Frank McDowell r Jas. McDowell, draper, of Wellington, brought to recover £500 damages for malicious proaecution arising out of levera! charges of embezzlement preferred by the present defendant against Frank McDowell, who had been in his emploj as trarellipg salesman, and all of which had been dismissed. At midnight the jury returned a verdiot in farar of the plaintiff, and awarding £75 damages with costs against defendant.

Dtobdin, April 21.

Ann Pearoe, an old nvuian, recovered £100 damans from the C\iy Corporation fer having broken her leg bjr falling over a aacpipe, which had been left in a channel abutting the kerb. At tho annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Soeietj the chairman stated th« notwithstanding the losses the soeietj would be able to tarn out 1&000 salmon.

Thii Day, A sjndicate has bern formed in London for carrying out the Sawyers Heed Canal scheme. If a Bill can he earned through this session th« work will be commenced forthwith.

AucKtijrD. April 21.

Oc several oocasioni during the Wai* rapa's paissge from Sydney, sudden and unexpected risings of the sea were ex« p#rieno«d, leading to the conclusion that they were the result of some volcanic action in the direction of Tonga.

The Isukuhu, a Japanese warship, will visit Auckland shortly. Owing to the threatening conduct of the boot operatives on strike, five men who returned to tbeir work at Gieen and Co.Yhad to be escorted from the factory to their homes by the police. The Minister of Public Works telegraphs to the Mayor that immediate consideration will be given in the case of the Auckland unemployed.

Oamxzv, April 21. The population of Oamaru, according to the census j u»t completed, is 5379, » decrease ef 512 compared with 1881. The county is expected to show an in* crease.