INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 84, 16 February 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PBB CMITKD PRWBB ABSOCIATIOK ) Gisbobnb, February 15. A nine-roomed house at Makaraka. owned and occupied by James Danlop, was bnraed to the ground yesterday afternoon. LBO worth of furniture was saved. Tbe insurances are L:\st) on the house and L 250 on tbe contents in the Colonial and Ll3O on the contents in the National; The origin of the fire was due to «parkß from the chimney. At the Police Court, Owen and Francis Cowen, stock farmers, were committed for trial on charges of horse stealing. Two search parties have returned, but have found no trace of the missing man Galbraitb. Wellington, February Id. A deputation waited on the Minuter of Justice to«day, urging him to introduce a clause into the Police Offenses Act prohibiting owners ot houses letting them to prostitutes. The minister pro* mised to insert a clause giving effect to this. The Coroner's inquiry re the three fires which broke out almost simultaneously on the night of the 3rd inst, was resumed to day. The jury returned a verdict that the premises in question had been wilfully set on fire by Beuben Hinds and John Collins. The creditors in the the estate of Mr F. P- Preston, wine merchant, have accepted an offer of 5s in the pound. This Day. At a jspecial sitting in Banco, application was made for judgment in the case of Grant to the Manawatu Highway Board, in which plaintiff attained a ver* diet at Wancanui. The application was opposed, but the court gave a verdict upholding the previous decision. Government intend completing all fortifications in the colony by prison labor. Sir P. D. Bell has cabled to the Premier his opinion that peace will be maintained. Port Chalmxbs, This Day. Arrived— lonic from Plymouth, via Cape^nd Hobart.