INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 132, 7 June 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

■» (PEB UNITED PJ4KBB ASSOCIATION ) Auckland, June 5. The proposal of the Victorian syndi cate who have just completed negotiations for the purchase of a kauri bush i and sawmills in Auckland, is to float a company with a capital of £1,000,1)00, and of this <iim from £500,000 to £750,000 will be expended in buying out the present owners. Chbistchttbch, June 5. At the R.M. Court this morning before Messrs K. Beetham, and J. H. Hall, Jonathan .Roberts was sentenced to 12 months hard labor for escaping from the gaol at I imaru. He pleaded guilty. Mr Beetham contrasted his case with that of Crabtree, saying that he was entitled to more mercy than that offender, as after his escape he conducted himself decently and attempted to earn his living honestlyWellington, June 5. The M arine Departmen t adrise that on Monday evening, Sophia R. Luhrs was entering Kaipara, she anchored in the channel, apparently dragged her anchor, and went ashore on the South Spit at 5 o'clock on Tuesday night. The crew are ashore It is doubtful if the vessel will get off again. This Day. A body found in the harbor this morning was identified as William Pope, billiard marker, who was a passenger on the Koranui from Dunedin to Weatport. The body had been in the water seventeen days and was much decomposed. The police seized an illicit still at Tauera, close to Maaterton, at daylight this morning. Saddle, a storekeep *r, has been, arrested in connection with it. Wanganui, June 6 At a meeting of fruit-grcwers and others held to-night, to discuss the ('odlin Moth Bill, it was resolved, ''That in the opinion of this meeting the Act would not prove workable, and would be detrimental to the interests of fruitgrowers." ■,l Dunedin, June 6. £Tohn Mann, 22 yeirs old, was killed in tfte flax Swamp by falling under hia dray, While endeavoring to check his runaway horse. | A boy named Charles, aged eight years, a son VI r Jumps Fowler, of Mosgiel, was killed yesterday by a horse bolting with liim. The boy hung by his foot from the stirrup. John Hailstone, a publican at Palmerstun South, was found dead in his bed this morninjj. Death is supposed to hare resulted from apoplexy. This Day. At n meeting of the local fruit grow- ; ors resolurions were carried stronsjly op« > posed to the passage of the Codlin Moth Bill in its present form, as being certain 1o cripple the fruii industry in this pa.itof tlie-coloay. .:....