INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 40, 17 September 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(per united press association.) Auckland, September IJS Matters at Samoa are quiet. Everybody is waiting the ratification or otherwise of the Satnoan treaty. King Alalietoa was present at; the annual meeting of the natives, and addressed the people. The warship Monengahela is at Apia, .and the guns and effects saved from the wrecks of the Trenlon and Vandalia are: being shipped on board that vessol, which is expected to sail for America on the Idth. A proposal is on foot for. the. establishment of a company for the export oi fruit to England, America, and Australia and a public meeting is to be held to consider the matter. The subject was discussed at a preliminary meeting of fruit growers to-day, and a report for the recommendation of a company was drawn up by those present. Lvvercabgill, September 16 The licensee of an accommodation house, who refused to allow a laborer who had got drunk on his premises -to: be put to bed, was fiued £5 and costs. The man was left out all night, getting frost-bitten. ■--'■■■ . Wellington; This Day. : Hearn'e friends are bestirring them-; selves in his interest, and arranging* means for providing the necessary stake for his race with Stephenson. At present the Wanganui river is talked of as the probable locality. Wellington. September 15. . Mr Kennedy, Hon. Secretary of the Wellington Municipal Fire Brigade, has issued a programme for a demonstration' t > be held here on the 3rd and 4th March,. 1890. The events are: — Hoso and hydrant, for five men. Manual engine (dry), one man. Manual engine for nve men. Ladder race, one man. Lifesaving apparatus. Hose and hydrant,, for two men. Officer's race, 150 yds. Manual engine, for five men. Ladder rescue, for two men. Hose reel practice, for five men. Hose and hydrant race, for one man. Ambulance, v for five men, Tug of war (North and South).; Consolation event, manual engine, for five men. The demonstration takes place on' the Basin Eeserye. All the ©vents are to be; run under the rules of the United Fife; Brigades' Association, and a! special prize will be given for the best life Baying apparatus exhibited during the demonßtra r tion . Nelson, September 16' : A sad case of sudden death "is reported . from Colhngwood. 'A young lady, ' Miss Doyle, daughter of Mrs Doyle of Nelson, was on a visit to Colhngwood, and while '■ at the house of a friend there suddenly fall down dead last night. She was shortly to be married. The Wesleyan church members to^ night resolved affirming the desirableness that the Wesleyan Church m New Zealand should have a separate conference independent of Australia. They have also resolved to invite the Bey. F. Isitt, of InvercargilU to take charge of the Nelson circuit next V6ar. the term- of the [lev W. C. Oliver expiring. Napieb. September 16 Theadjounid inquest on the body of the new-born child of Mary Kyle was held to-day, when a verdict equivalent to manslaughter was returned: ; :. TCobimo Houngarin has reported to the police that pv.er 20 Mahurangi Natives attacked him on Saturday and carried off his daughter, aged 19, who was stripped naked in the struggle. The only reason they gave was that the girl had spoken a bad word about some of their tribe, havirg reference to some superstition. A dozen of the police for^e wore despatched this afternoon to arrest the ringleaders. _ September 17. The Napier Education Board are .£2OOO overdrawn. They are ask ng Government for assistance. . . • . .._■ OHHisTCHrKCH. This Day. 130 children ire daily crowded out of the Sydenham school, for want of room. .