INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 143, 13 May 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

«. [PKB UNITED PBKSS ASSOCIATION. Cfikistchubch. May 12. Mr E. M. Taylor has been elected M.H.R. for Sydeuliam. The nmnbers polled were, K.. M. Taylor, 44tf ; J. L Scott, 421; S. P. Andrews, 233; S G Jolly, 2. Mr Taylor has not avowec himself a supporter to any party, but Inn said he will support the Governn.a if ir securing the construction of the Wes Coast railway. The auditors of the Kanpoi Borougf Council, whose clerk was missing souk days ago, have reported that, after som< considerable trouble and difficulty in ex amining the books, which were kept in i very bad manner, they have succeeded ir preparing an accurate biiluncetsbeet, and after a careful and searching audit thej j find that the cash is correct. It is under stood that the clerk has been taking t holiday on his own account. ThisTJayJ. Last night Neal Cunningham, j a car* penter, 65 yearn old, committed suicid< by shooting himself at hi« house in Allei ( street. He suffered from dropsy, ant hnd been in low spirits for some con siderable time. Gisborne,. This Day. The racehorse Leonnta has been burnl to death in the stable w.iich was desi troyed by fire. Whether insured is no! known.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEUT.j Bulls, This Day. A general meeting of the parishioners oi Sandon, Greatford, and Bulls, was held at Bulls last night. Colonel Gorton presiding. It was unanimously resolved that the present parish is unworkable and that the following arrangements bt given effect to by the Standing Committee. Sandon and Campbelltown to be attached to Feilding, and Greattord and Bulls to b» oined to Marion.