INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 17 June 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PKB PJCITBD PBEBS ASSOCt ATIOK. Timaktt, June 15. The wreck of the ship Lyttelton with t'»e machinery and coals wassold today for £125 to a Company, who, it i* under* stood, intend ■to try to raise her. The sails, boat*, &c, was also void; the total ■ale being £911 15s. Nothing fresh is reported concerning the wreck. The «en i» very calm, and no further damage i* done. New Pltmocth, Jnn» 16. A large meeting of ratepayers war held last evening, to protest against a portion of the borough being made over to trust* tm instead of to the Corporation. The speakers 'charged Major Atkinson and Colonel Trimble with making an incorrect statement to the House respecting the. matter, and that the Premier had- agreed to nee the intercut of the Corporation wac not neglectivi when passing the Bill. A resolution prote*tiiig against the pa-wains of t he-Bill was carried by two-third « of those present, and a petition is beiag largely.; si-nefl -to wnd to the Upper House against the Bill. . " Auckland. This D*y. The whaleship Petr*i enquiry terrain* ated yesterday at Ru9*ell, when Captain Reid, tho mat**, an I secoii'l inato, mule a statement generally denyinj; the cliunjes or cruelty and areeleratin^ the d-'ath , of two men. .The police take po.<tse«sinn uf the ship. Two , c<>n>itables were -on board all night, and neither of the ac-cused-i* allowed ou board. Tbis- morn* iiig the third officer consented, t© take charge of the' ship."^ ' . ■ / ...