INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 122, 21 April 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

r [per united pjress association.! * Auckland, Vpril 19. , r Maj or Green, Sheriff, died to«daj ] Deceased has been in delicate health for ! some time, but insisted on Buperri.siu^ x the execution of Caffrey and Perm, aud r .ias been declining ever since. The Herald publishes a letter by Cap* tain Daveney (paymaster of the Imperial Pensioners, and formerly of the Inhiskillin Dragoons) to his Excellency the Governor, containing a proposal for ri settlement of pensioners on the line of the main trunk railway, the pensioners to be principally discharged soldiers T from the Indian service, " These men would have pensions raging from Is Id T to 4s 6d a day, so they could never be- ' x come paupers. Palmkbston Nohth, April 20. [ A novel resolution was carried at the meeting of Terrace End residents last night to consider the question of fire prot tection ; — viz., to present Messrs Dixon Ij and Drew, the two most prominent in preventing the spread of the. fire, with medals made out of the fused silver coin gel out of the ruins. 1 This Day. At the Police Court this morninjj Jas. Eyan, a big powerful man, was fined £10, '■ or two months' imprisonment for being : drunk in the Square while in possession 1 of loaded fire-arms. The man had a loaded revolver and a large knife, which he carried in a belt. As he was violently 1 <irunk, and a very dangerous character • he was only arrested after a severe struggle. Tijiabu, April 20. C. and G. Parker and F. J. Slater, were indicted for indecent assault on a young girl at Fairlie (Greek. The theory of the prosecution was that George Parker was engaged to marry the girl, and that Charles disapproved of the match, knowing her to i>e unfaithful, aud offered to test the girl's fidelity on a certain evening while George and Slater should secretly* obscure themselves. The result of the arrangement was the assault. Mr Joynt, for the defence, asked the Judge J to exercise .discretion and allow t haWes Parker, who was tried with the actual ! assault, to be tried first, and that the other prisoners be allowed to give evidence. The Judge complied, and the trial is now proceeding. Wellington, This Day. Some natives at Russell have started to practice cremation. The native chiefs ' are alarmed, and have consulted the Native Minister on the subject. j Gbeymocjth, L'his-Day. ! Robert Corse c< mmitied suicide at j Dobsontown yester.iay, by drowning himsell in the river. He was unsettled in his mind, owing lo his inability to get j work, and provide for his wife and four • children.