INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 96, 19 February 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITBD PRKSS ASbOCIA'.VOIT} Ohbistcufach. February It* A fire occurred on board the Kaikoura la9t night At midnight all danger was over. Toe meat w not injured, the only loss being the quantity of coal destroyed. Palmkb^t m* Nobth, This Day. A founroomed dwelling, owned and occupied by W. J. Lambert, was burned down at three this morning. Insurance £150 on the building and furniture. Wellington, This Day. A meeting of local grocers last night decided to form a grocers' association and raise the price of sugar one halfpenny per pound. Arrived— Ship Euterpe, London 3rd No~ vember. Barque Simeon, New York Ist November, after uneventful passages. The fifth annual report of the Wellington Meat Company states there is a profit' on the years transactions, enabling the wiping off all liabilities and recommend* two pounds ten whilitngn per share be written off. Extensive bosh fires are raging near Eketahuna and two settlers at Hastwell, Creighton and Jannett, have been buinsd out and lost everything. They are insured to some extent. The Property Tax returns wffl not be complete for a week, but the Commissioner reports money has come in better than ever before. 4 Oliitkton, February IS. A horse ridden by a boy named Griffin was frightened by the engine crossing the Waingawa railway bridge this morning, and threw its rider, who struck a post which dashed hit brain* out. (fbom otjb own cobbxspohdsnt) Danxvibxk This Day. Pilgrims y. Danevirke — Ist innings Besultedm a tie. . .