INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 149, 17 July 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Chbistchubch: July 16. Mr Allardyce has been elected captain of the team playing against the Maori footballers. The City Council to-night decided to take steps for raising a loan of £50,000 to erflcl gas works. A shock of earthquake was felt at Barry's Bay at twenty minutes to 4 on Saturday morning. Mr Jno. Ollivier has come forward for Ashley, He announces himself not a party man, considering that party government is ridiculous in a young countr j like New Zealand. In Banco to-day, Mr Justice Ward upheld the decision of the Commissioner of Stamps in tlie case of Thomas Greenwood, deceased, t hat a mortgage of property in the Colony was liable to duty under the Deceased Persons Estates Act, though at the time of the mortgagee's death both mortgagee apd morgagor were resident in England. At 530 p.m. on Saturday, R bert Kennedy, farmer, of Ashler, was killed by being thrown from his trup, which collided with another driven by William Rossiter on the road beiween Ashley and Sefton. No blame is attached to Rossiter, who tried to avoid the collision, while deceased made no effort to get out of the way. A meeting of shopkeepers and assist* ants was held this evening in Robson's rooms to consider the Shop Hours Bill. Mr Joyce, VI.H.R., was present, and explained his views on the subject of early closing. It was resolved — '• That this meeting of employers and employes regret to hear that certain Auckland members are unfavorable to the Bill, but trust that all our members will give their support to the Bill, altering, if necessary, the hour of closing from 6 to 7." Mr Marmaduke Dixon announces himself as a candidate for the Ashley seat. Napieb, July 16. A deliberate murder is reported from Waiapu. A Maori shot his wife and then took to the bush. The police are after him. No further particulars. Inyebcabgill, July 16. A five-year old son of Mr Henry BuU ler, Seaward Bush, died from the effects of drinking the contents of a bottle of creosote, which had been left within his reach on the dressing»table. A man giving his name as Henry Harvey, and his occupation as a miner, who was fonnd in an empty hut at the Bluff in a starving and imbecile condition, was charged to day with lunacy, Rnd rem&nded for examination. This Day. News is to hand that a thirty»six ounce nugget has been found in the Longwood Ranges, near Riverton. Auckland, July 14. At 1 o'clock to-day 27,500 shares in the newly-formed Kauri Syndicate had been applied for in Auckland. A private cable message from Melbourne states that the applications for shares in the Company are likely to be heavy. Several intending investors in Victoria are forwarding their deposit moneys to New Zealand, believing; that there will be a better chance of obtaining an allotment of shares here than on their side of the water. A meeting ot Chinese arranged yesters day to pay the passages of a number of Celestials who wish to return to China bj the first tea ship calling here. Dunedin, July 16. At the City Court Mrs Lemmer was fined £5 and costs for sly grog*sellmg The Bench made the penalty light, owing to the husband's conviction. In bankruptcy the Judge refused the discharge of Robert Patterson (of Patterson and McLeod), because the balance sheets were wilfully misleading. Gisbobne, July 16 Information has been received from Waiapu of a Maori woman. Mere Kapn, by her husband, William Taurei, son of i the Rev \Johi Turei. The woman's ribs jg, were stove in by the stock of a gun and a i part of her head shot away. c