INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 11, 8 July 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PGB UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION.)

Auckland, July 7

The Rotorua Belief . Committee have remitted £100 to the Rotorua local committed for the relief of the di*tr<*s«#d. . The offices of tho Colonial Mutual Lif- Assurance Society hare been hnr« solarised, but the safe baffled the bur* glars. Benjamin and Alice Kayp, of Taurjingo, have been acquitted for arson. TiiisDav.

At the Supreme Court John Ryan for stubbing George Lawlorat Orotiki was sentenced to six months impnsonmentv Arthiir Morton for pnsß:ng' valueless cheques received nine months. The house of J. Walsh, o£ Wairoa South, w.ps destroyed by fire and its contents at two yesterdiy morning. One of tbe children narrowly escaped being burner! to death. , The insurance i-i the N evr Zealand office does not cover the loss. . , "

The agitatfrtn ja beinsr ft»rried on in the Northern districts a«;ain<t the reduction of the vote for the Trunk railway extension aorth of Auckland. It is sujfijpsted that the settler* <h<mld refunp tn pay the pr»port7 tnx aa a vigorous protest asnin«t the in just ices •

At the annual meeting of shareholders in the New Zealand Loan and Vie'ruantili' Co. yesterday, Pr Campbell, chairman, stat'd tho business was in a flourishing condition. The lo«« by Halt's defalea tion* was not expected to exceed £1 500 to £2>oo. Wellington, July 7. Captain Williams *n.J Mesar* R T. Wh««eli»r and E. Pe-trce have agnin been nominated as Government member* of the Harbor Board. The steamer Tamsii arrirad frcm Fouchow this afternoon. Hokittka. Thin Day. Holmes, the coach drirer who went Aitt shooting, was rocorered late last night He wns alire when reached, but died before being brought to the surface. The »haft was 35 feet deep. Nelson, July 7. j 'Under the arrangement of certain shareholders in the ■ htnipion Copper Company, with the leave of the Court, rtraeltiutf operations were coranienoed on Sunday afternoon. The furnaces hare been going splendidly ever since, and the copper is running freely. Nrw Plymouth, July 7. A sad occurrence happened this morning. A party of three went out on a fishing excursion about 9 o'clock, and one of them, Hugh Batchelor, well known as Walker's barman at the Imperial Hotel, suddenly dropped his oar, complaining he felt faint,, and was not s* good as he used to be. The party were about a mile out. Suddenly Bitchelor fainted, and the party made for the shore as quickly as possible, but the deceased expired before getting in. Batchelor looked a healthy man, and his death, which is supposed to be from heart dispose, is very sudden. He leares a wife and nine childiron. ■ ' ..