INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 50, 7 October 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, October 6. Information received from Fiji by the Arawatu states that judgment in the Appeal Court of Fiji has been given fir plaintiff in the action Mamamea t. William McArthurand Co. Judgment states that plaintiff if entitled to the possession of 300,000 acres, and Me Arthur and Co. are ordered to deliver up possession. Advices from Samoa state that an International Conterence oa the subject of the government of that cnuntrjr was holding its sittings, but the nature of the business is not allowed to transpire. The American flag has been hauled down from over the Samoan flag, which is now flying alone. The Stark Purchase Commission are making arrangements for opening the in* quiry next Monday. Counsel hare been engaged on behalf of the Government and the Vigilance! Committee, The proceed, ings will be open to Press. Indignation has been expressed here at the action of the Government in accepting the resignation of Mr H. M. Brewer, Land Purchase Agent. In the case Vlanema and others v. Me Arthur and Co., in which judgment was given by the Court in Fiji in favour of plaintiffs, the defendants intend appeal' ing from the decision to che Privy Council. New Plymoixth, October 6. The wife of a settler named Waters, at Mokau, died suddenly, in her sleep last niglit, supposed from heart disease. Dcnedin, October 6. I An awfully sudden death toot place just as the Court had risen. The deputy registrar. Mr A. D. Harvey, fell on the floor, and when assistance reached him he died almost immediately. Wellington, October 6. Sir Tulins Yogel has received the following telegram from the postmaster at • Whakatane: — " White Island appears from here to be in a state of active eruption. At six o'oelock this evening vast columns of smoke were thrown up some thousands of feet. This Day. At a Cabinet meeting it was decided to recommend the Governor to sanction the release of P. ('. Watty undergoing a sentence of five years tor forging, on January Ist, when he will have nerved half his time. Watty has shown exemplary conduct in goal, wh-re he has rendered considerable assistance to the authorities. Hokitika. October 6. The Bank of New Zealand has shipped 2000 ounces »f gold bullion, valued at £8000, being a fortnight's purchase Dunedin, October 8. The Presbytery has referred to the Synod a memorial from the First Free Church Congregation, asking to be ad» mi t ted mio the Presbytery provided safeguards are provided against instnt mental music and other innovations. The Presbytery express the opinion that no absolute safety can be provided by the higher courts of the churoh. Gisbobxe, This Day. An elderly man, named John Fmlayson, who has been missing a week, was found drowned in the river this morniag. ■