INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 133, 16 May 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Palmebston Nobth, This Day. Clark Dunn, a well known resident, died suddenly from heart disease last night. Dunhdin. This Day. On dit, as the outcome of recent correspondence re the Blue Spur Mining Company, Mr P. M. Byrne, of Lawrence, is being sued for libel at the instance of J. C. Brown and Vincent Pyke. Sir Bobert Stout is retained for Brown, and Mr Stanford for Pyke. Mr Praser for the defence. Auckland, This Day. Mr Eochefort, who is surveying in the King country, was 6topped by natives who, headed by some half-castes, took possession of the instruments and stopped the party. Mr Bochefort came into Morrinsville to obtain the assistance of the police. The- reason of the interference is disputed boundaries. May 15. Mr T. J. Morrow, secretary of the Archhill Boad Board, has been arrested at Fiji, charged with the embezzlement of moneys belonging to that body.

Valuable coal seams of great depth hare been discovered between the Puhipuhi and Whangarei districts. The steamer Awhina, damaged in the collision in the channel last night, floated off at Kangitoto and was towed up to port by the Rotoiti this morning. The hurricane which passed over Samoa on March IS did great damage. At Nini one of the Savage Islands, 675 houses, three churches, two schoolhouses, and about iiOOO cocoanut trees were destroyed.

Wellington, This Day.

In consequence of the repeated statements to the effect that the Agricultural estimates were below the mark, the Begis-trar-General has caused further enquiry to be made and has published a memo embodying the results. He considers the actual crop of wheat does not differ materially from the estimate. In South Canterbury he found one instance where the machine results showed 20,000 more bushels each of wheat and oats, and 27,800 of barley ; but in Oamaru and several counties of Otago he considers the actual yield will be slightly under the estimate. In Bruce county it will be ten per cent, more ; in Southland there will be little or no difference.

The Defence Department absolutely deny there is any foundation for the statements as to the bad condition of the barracks at Fort Takapuna, Auckland. They say the excellence of the aocomodation afforded the men elicited the greatest commendation from officers of the Naval Squadron, and the real meaning of the complaints is that the men want to be removed from the barracks and given quarters in a large house on the grounds now in the" occupation of the officers, a thing which the Department do not intend to permit. The Minister of Justice intends to incorporate some of the suggestions from magistrates as to the dealing with juvenile crime, in an amendment to the J.P. Act.