INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
[PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. Wanganui, Thia Day.
Ferman's hotel at Aramoho was burnt down this morning. The proprietor was away shooting. Only two women were on the premises, who had to get out of the windows. Nothing was saved. Insurances—Northern, £600 on building ; stock, £225 in Colonial ; and £150 on furniture.
Palmebston, This Day.
At a publio meeting last nighVitwa* decided to erect an Opera house in Pal» merston to cost £2,500, and a committee was appointed to consider the whole question and report next week. Haweba, This Day.
.It Hap been resolved to float a Dairy Factory . at ' Otakehe- on the Waimate plains, the bulk of the capital of £1800 .being already subscribed.
"'■ There is a likelihood of floating a Faotory at Mania also. -
Wsllikoton, May 28.
The approximate report on the ' Maori census show, a decline since last cen -mi of 2641- North Llknd ; 39,287 ;/South, 2045; total, 41.332. Tlv population in 1881 wax— North, 41.912; south, 2061 ; total 43.973.
Dcnkdin, May 28.
The jury in the inquest on the blasting Occident returned . a verdict of " manslaughter again»t the corporation."
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 150, 29 May 1886, Page 2
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