INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 87, 29 January 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PRESS ASfeOCIAWOIT) Duhrdin. This Day.

There will be no Easter Encampment this year, the Government not being able to give the usual subsidy. Auckland, January 28. The North New Zealand Woollen Fao tory was offered for sale by the liquidators to-day. There was a large attendance, but not a single bid was made. This Day. A meeting of the Railway Reform League, Hamilton, held yesterday, passed a resolution expressing alarm at the appointment of Maxwell as a Railway Commissioners, on the ground of his management having caused grave dissatisfaction, and hindered the settlement of the country; ako, that Mr Maxwell considered the present system perfect, and therefore there is no hope of the drastic reforms recommended by Parliament to the commission being carried out. Blexheim, January 28. The Maori Gorge claim prospects have wonderfully improved as the bottom is approached. The walls are found to be wider than believed and the gold yield is anticipated to be very large. The owners of the Wakamanna Gorge claim are watching operations with gie.it interest. They expect to bottom in a fortnight. One twenty.eigth share last week quoted at £60 is now unobtainable at £90. Chbistchfbch, January 28. Joseph Childs, a blacksmith at Lyttelton, aged 75, one of the "pilgrims," died rather suddenly yesterday morning. He left work apparently well on Baturday afternoon, and was seized with a fit m the evening. He died at 5 a.m. on Sunday after a secor.d fit. John MoManus was committed for trial to-day for the murder of William Cody at Bipa Island on Satttrday. DuifßDiN, January 28. At the Supreme Court the bankruptcy certificate of F. Wilkinson, ironmonger, I was suspended for two years for not keeping proper books J. Draper, Miltot), had his dicharge suspended for six months. Masterton, January 28. The weather continues grand for the harvest. A large number of farmers appoar to be inclined to thresh as quickly as possible, with a view of shipping to Australia. The average yield of oats is estimated to be upward of 40 bushels per aoro, and wheat fully 30 bushels. Wellington This Day. Application for a mandamus, by the Benevolent Society, to oompel the united District Board to do its duty and levy contributions, was granted this morning with 70 guineas costs.