INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 22, 3 August 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[".' f?EB CNITKD PBBBB A88OCIATIOX.) ■ . "Rrnelit Moore," a ■ respectabie looking -youae man, has been arrested ou a charge >Jful&rini^O/;< -um>K r^ 1 ]

The City Engineer started a number of the unemployed on road v work to-day, selecting the needy men with families. The Government have offered a further iadfance to the unemployed on strike at ,Mo,uirtEd»nwpr>(^buttheyhaveire ,io t accept it, de»jring v4^ 6d ( a day as in the southern relief works. It is intended ' to ' 'reduce ' the" men working at Mount Eden from 4> 6d to 4« a day. :' '

~ DVNRTON, Atl((UHt 1. - 'ijjbhn thaner. en« of the pioneers of -Arrow, has been found in Lake Wakaji tipu. ' It ' wan understood that he ■ ,ba# .gone to Englfind. His death, i« a myntery. ) ■'■'•. ■■•■■;•'.•■ Oamabxt, An-ust 1. \ ■ A child named Pynati Ml into a well afternoon; iri the absence of the '^parentsvand w-''» i 'drbwh"iM ! . !; •• ' ■-■■■'' Post Chalmers, August 1. ; ■: '; The. barque Lanststone,- from London fojr Lyttleton, pav»ted the Otag* Heads this aftcraooni 93 days outi- .- .: Thames, July, 31. : Mr Eonrick, Warden and Re«ident If aeistrafe.' died in Auckland/tbii afternoon. The news has caused a profound ■enßation hero, and i« receired with feel? -iinßtof most sinpere regret by all clatsei of the community. •'•■. ! Gbkttoww Noeth, July 31; ( -;' Dr StebbmgsKeTans, anold Wairarspa 'settUn, died at noon to-day. - ' L '. ' , PaimbbStos JJJpET]a> .-This., Day; .' T^he ManAWfttunnd -W«>t ConntAgricultural and P««toral AMOcmtion have docided hold their first Show on the' 9th November, it bein^ un l«»r«.tO".d ; the Company's line will be o enel through to Wellinuton that day. A. «ire liow parade is to be held on the; LLth of Sepi toraber. .The jjoeie.ty (prpiniitei to; bf : . » grand ftucc*is. There arV, al'out- 20<j) members' alrertdy, and rereral moire lists yet to come in. . ° I , : . >WBLtiiroT«;K. A«x : ust'2. ; jSerßeant, .Walk-rr, : who,, fti&ined, ~,i rom Syduey bj.iKV \VWkatipu"' wTiiltf inlthat "ijitr n^&femi#w#reW;nya te-th* yifsi^K n^fe^^be^UKorHtts^f ; ih«>y^ saw a \mant answering' ',tHe tions of Levy knocking ah<»«t*^,dneyi;ior -several dav« . ■. ;■.•*• „- . j

'A petitioa la feeing signed ;'by the'^aw;millers and settlers f on the New Plymouth WingaMui hnei' to the Gbvernment^for a, reduction on freight oa tiniber for export. We will refer ltd ! this subject in another issue. \ : : Telegrams put in at the T Wellington offiee-:at 10.30 a.m. were only delirered at ouroffice at. 12.15 p.m. When the Wei-. littpt*n-Manawatu line is open we will establish a pigeon express. , (/ , • „ • V 'fcch4rd( Mbprei-! '%. re|ir«k{lio»6ha^t nearly; 70 years' of age, i^as found dead in his house at the North Shore, Auckland, on, Sunday morning: sitting on a chair with a gun between his knees. Deceased had been m low spirits for sometime. "Four years ago he shot himself with a : pistol, inflicting two wounds, bat he recovered. ;;:.,: ■■'•':.! •" ; .:^< | i.

:■ Newt from the G*pe«tatei thata Courtmartial haf be?n held at Maritzb^rg by the Imperial authorities to iuTeitig*t« a eharee agaioft Captain T. SHepi tone, C.M.tF., ef the Natal Carabineers, "of haring apprepiated certain documents off 'thebdoyof the late Celonel Duraford, who wa« killed m the general masicre at laandnla, and at whose intermeat ; after the general massacre' Captaia Saep«tone jras present, the supposed object of the alleged abstractionof the documents boinff It<i Shield General Lord Chelmsford from bUme on account of the mawore. The -fcJourt is understood to hare acquitted Captain Shepstone. There is a strong desire on the part of the Antwerp wool-brokers and manufacturers-' to encou rage Australasian growers fo send their, clips to the Belgian market for sale. It isstated as one inducement that, there v a. saving pf freight .b/^doing: no ■' as, ; the .r cost of Carriage the colonies to Antwerp is the "same ai to lK>nHon.. Thf,,Tnlu^ of;the, Aastralaian W'ol beatht annoallj. for Belgium, Halland, the Rhine ProViaoes, Switzerlapd, andq he - -North -of France, M.de Harvcln ! puts at £ll,OQO,OQj) sterline- ' At the salex I 'at Antwerp last May 1 5,519 bales in all were catalogued, 'of which only 771 wero from Australia, the great bulk being from South-America.', ; f ;•':

"^ A Scot,' •' writing 1 to St. James : Gazette a^ym^-l'^ee jt - annop-ed in >a >ocietj organ that :Princi: ! Alb»rt Victor whd i« tbopen the Edinburgh Exhibition next #reek^i* looting forward with alarm to the ha^ei"; th«~kilti. the cockie-leekie, andtheibajjpipes. Perhaps that is oj»ly the writer's, funnj waj ( ©f putting things. Will you «'llow a Scotchraon, howerer, who i* {fetting, tired of the^e jesti, to saj | that he has lired most of hia life in his native countrj. and nerer yet saw 'a haggis ! Oncer in Aberdeen^ I met a lady who had tasted liaggw when she was a child. You may lire in Snotland fora year and nierer hear the bagpipe* OockieiWkje.is only «pt; in perfection in a few London ..hotels. Kilts are worn chiefly by visitors , from .the nouth.- ' I was fonr-yea ,s at ■ Edinburßh University and there' 1 was' only l one- % »tulent in niy clans with red hair. He C'liae from ( Pljinoiith. ; "" - ".■ : '■■'■''■'■''. ::; '" :: - j