INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 19, 30 July 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PEK UNITED PR.ESB ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, This Day. Captain Saville is improving in health, j Lord Cranley, who left for Nelson on Thursday, is indisposed. Hie Excellency the Governor received a message from the medical attendant to the following effect : — " Lord Cranley has had a feverish attack, but the symptoms do not at present denote typhoid. It is hoped that it is only a relapse from his recent convalescence from jaundice.'' JVlabton, This Day, A half-caste named Wilson was charged at the R.M. Court, Marton, to-day with stealing a promissory note for £150. He was remanded till August 8. Dunedin, July 29 A four- year old daughter of Mr W. F. Boyes, of Waikaia, was burned to death yesterday, having set fire to some tussocks, the flames from which enveloped her. At an extraordinary meeting of tho Roseville Dairj r Factory Company, it it was resolved to voluntarily wind up, Messrs .Elder and Bolt being appointed liquidators. One of the Directors said the Company was virtually bankrupt. Beside a mortgage of £1600 on the building there was another £1000 due, and nothing to pay it with. During the lust fortnight the Company had lost £420 through a firm failing to meet payments ; and, as one shareholder put it, the Company have lost £5600 in eighteen months, it not being very clear where the losses have been made. Auckland, July 29. The fuueral of the late Mr Justice Gillies took place to-day, and was attended by all members of the legal profession, Court officials, and many representatives citizens. It is estimated that the cortege was about a mile in length. The remains of the deceased were interred in St Andrew's Cemetary, Epsom. At the annual meeting of the lodge representatives of the Order of Oddfellows in the Auckland district, the united eick funds amounted to £26,900 (omitting shillings and pence), the managment funds to £7252, and district funeral fund to £652 >, showing the grand total to be £40,674, being an average of £35 per member. Nelson, July 29. Mrs Ann King, wife of a farmer at Richmond, was found dead in bed this morning early. At the inquest held this afternoon, the eyidence showed that she had suffered from weakness of the heart for some years, and a verdict of died from natural causes was returned.