INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 109, 21 March 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(per united prbss associa*noit) Dunedin, March 20.

The battle over |selling grain with bags weighed in still continues. Meetings of farmers continue to pass resolutions pledging themselves to sell only when bags are paid for as extra. A number of the Dunedin brokers are said to have met and signed an agreement not to purchase except on the old terms of bags weighed

Woodville, March 20

Work is now started at the Maharahara Copper Company's mine. The drive is beiug extended and the lodge in the shaft being penetrated. Three tons of ore will be got for testing in Auckland.

Wellington, March 20

There was a. great rußh for the Government sections thrown open this week. In all about 25,000 acres were offered in various parts of the province, of which some 13,000 were taken up.

The Dunedm Imn Home Bule sym~ pathisers have forwarded a cable to Eemondo aud his fellow delegates inviting them to visit Dunedin.

Agricultural statistics for Canterbury . —Wheat, 5,487,902 bushels, average 23 per acre; oats, 3,607,244, average 27 ; barley, 52,850, average 28 ; potatoes, 36,164 tons, average 25£ tons; Hay, 16,553 tons average 1.3.

This Day. A large assembly welcomed Archbishop Bedwood, who returned by the Tekapo, addresses were presented by the congregation.

Auckland, March 20,

Mr C. Greenway, who had the reputa tion of being the welthiest man in Auck land, died this morning.

Jagger, a storeman, and C. E. Madden, solicitor, have been arrested on a charge of obtaining £20 on false pretences. Jagger was lately reported to have had a large fortune left him and he had been borrowing on the strength of his expectations.

A large gathering of the Tuwharetou tribe is taking place in tie Taupo district to elect a chief in place of the late Heuheu Tukino. Tawhiao, with 160 followers, has arrived. The Star correspondent says the meeting will discuss the extinction of the Hau Hau religion so that all Maoris in the district may have one chief religion. Many natives are followers of Te Kooti, but now is considered a favorable opportunity to destroy hie influence in religion. Mr (Jr. Fisher, Minister of Education, arrived from the South to-day.

Amongst the passengers for Sydney today by the Botomahana was Mr GL M, Heed, journalist.

Westport, This Day. The Denniston Miner's Union have struck for a levy of 2s 6d per man per week for the support of locked out laborers at Cape Foulwind. This will amount to between j-40 and £50 weekly.

Nelson. March 19On Tuesday the 12th instant, a wellknown miner, who has lived on the district for 35 years— John Tarrant, 60 years of age— was lying in his hut at Mauna, 120 miles, from here, when a tree fell, crashing through the hut and crushing his legs, pinning him down. Ho lay unable to move, with nothing to eat or dii k until Sunday last, when his fearful plight was discovered Messrs Walker, Kerr and some miners made a stretcher and carried him forty miles to a coach road, and then drove him into town to the Hospital. It is feared he will lose both legs. A very fine stag, weighing between 400 1b and 5001 b, was Bhot on Spooner's Ban?e yesterday. Its antlers have twelve tines. This is the third stag reported over 4001 b, and the stalkers have had good sport.