INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
[per uxited press association.! DuNEDiJf, January 6. All Ihe Otago runs expiring in February are to l>e re-leaspd, and the Land Board have decided to rp«offer a number of surrendered perpetual leases at much reduced rentals.
At the inquest on Thomas Newton the evidence tende . to show that decease] dislocated his neck by diving into shallow water at Oceim Beach, and that the bony was carried out to sea.
The National Bank has declared a dividend of 5 per cent.
The first bhxtk «>f land under the homestead system, containing ab.»ut 3,000 ncres, hits all been taken up with the exception of 93 acivs on the top of a hill. Eight applicants necureJ their selections unopposed, six allotments were balloted for, and eight of the unsuccessful applicants took up other areas. Ihe Land Board decided not to receive applications from women for self and children where the bus'jund was alive. Hokitika. January 7. The Bank of New Zealand's monthly purchases, including Christmas gold, amount to 4911 ounces, valued at £19.644.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 79, 8 January 1887, Page 2
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