INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 152, 3 June 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

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Woodville, June 2.

G. H. Sinclaire, late ..agent for the Bank of New Zealand here, was presented, :i last night, with a purse of sovereigns on , the oocasion of his transfer to the Wellington office'of the Bank. | Gisborne, June 1. Willoughby Brassey, solicitor, paid the cheque for £155 Is 81 to-day, just as a criminal information . was being sworn against him. Proceedings are now stopped. Weilinoton, This Day. A meeting of Wellington and Hawkes Bay WaS held to-day at which Captain Russell and Mr Smith were present. "Resolutions were canned in favor of proceeding with the construction of the Manawatu Gorge line as soon as possible, and that a sum should be placed on the estimates for making roads as well as railway, as they were necessary as feeders for the Railways. A deputation was appointed to wait on the Government, , Chbistchvbch, June 2. Yesterday a little, girl named Tre* venna/16 months old, died from scalding. She pulled a oup of hot- tea over herself on Saturday. Andrew Van Hallow was committed for trial to-day for robbing his mate, Thomas Joyce, of an order on the Farmers' Co-operative Association for £13. Dcnedin. June 2. An expressman named George Brenner fell while lifting a box on the wharf, and died shortly after, it is supposed from j some internal disease. I Mr A. McGregor, lost in the Ly*ee> ! moon, is a son of Mr McGregor, late land; 1 lord of the British Hotel, and is 23 years of age. * ■• •■■■'-■• . Auckland. June 2. Four deserters from the American whaler, Petrel, have made charges of great cruelty against the captain and; mate. It is alleged they y deserted to reach Auckland, and complain to the American Consul. Captain Webb, as acting Consul, left for Rassell to-night to investigate, the charges, y