INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 67, 4 December 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PRRSB AsbOCIATIOV.) Wellixgton, This Day The Ministers deny the statement that the Solicitor-General has been appointed to the vacant Judgeship, but still refuse to make the name known. It is raining heavy, and the complimentary race meeting to Mr Dorm, Secretary Wellington Bacing Club, has been postponed until Saturday. HAwera, This Day. Mr Marchant addressed his constituents at Stratford last night, and receivee a vote of thanks and confidence. Mrs P. Maxwell, of Okaiawa, met with a dray accident, and is not expected to recover. Auckland, This D«y. The Waiwera Hoi Springs Hotel and

Sanatorium have been sold to a Melbourne syndicate. . Oamarv, December 3. "Francis William Ogilvie Grant* tenth Earl of Seafield, died at his residence at Oumaru about noon to- da y of heart "*-^ , disease, at tbe early aare of 41' year's. Ilis death has c-.ist quite a gloom over the place, his Lordship bom^ much respected for his liberality and general sterling qualities His eldeat son, James Ogilvie Grant. Viscount Reidhaven, aged II years, takes the title. -- , , IS'AKKii. December^ ~-"" ; An botettreeper at West Chve named | Buddick was find LlO at the Besident Magistrate' 8 Court this morning for allowing dice to be played in his licensed premises. , Mastebton, December 3. At a meeting of the creditors of Brown and Rodgers to-day it was resolved that the bankrupts be publicly examined at the Masterton Distrust Court on tbe 12th of December, and McDougattaud Faunin be summoned to- give evidence. B&RNHEIM, December 3 A lad named Webbings (aged 13) while) out with two companions yesterday received a gunshot wound which is not unlikely to prove fatal. One of the party jokingly presented a gun, behaving it. to be unloaded, and the shot entered th» groin and passed through the body. The lad lies in a critical state.