INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 66, 1 December 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

«, (PER UNITED PRRSS A-feOC! ATIOM.) Hawera, Hovember 30. The entries for the Egmont Agricultural and Pastoral show ou Wednesday number 460, about 50 less than last year, mainly due to the Palmerston -Rangitikei show. The sheep entries are not so numerous as last year. Hokitika, November 30. David Curie, proprietor of the Hokitika Guardian, was to-day served with a writ at the suit of Pollock and Bevan, a local firm of auctioneers, for a libel cape, which will come on at the March Eittmgs of the Supreme Court before the Judge without a jury. It "is understood, m view of the increased price of produce, tne farmers will largely inorease their area of cropping potatoes. Wellington, This Day News has just been received here that the greater portion of the Belfast Meat Freezing Works, six miles from Christchurch, has been burned down. Building is insured for £15,830; machinery for £2700. Seven thousand carcases, which were burned, were insured for £8000 T Insurances: New Zealand, £1250; Loudon, Liverpool and Globe, £1600 ; London and Lancaster, £1250 ; North British £1250; Standard, Phoenix. Sun, North German, National, £750 each ; Union, £1000 ; Imperial, £850 ; Guardian, £100; Victoria, £800; Colonial, £500; Royal, L500 ; Equitable, LSOO. Total, £13,550. The Premier, and Messrs Fergus and Mitchelson, accompanied by Mr Blair, Engineer, leave on Monday to inspect the Otago Contral Route.