INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 42, 21 September 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

' ; - : *. .. (PKR UNITED PKKSS ASSOCIATION.) Palmkbston North, September 20. - UharlesiWalter Langstoue was to-daj oomnaitted for trial ou a charge of uttorlng a cheque for £7, ptrrportiiig- to bt drawn byJimes Brown on the Bank of New Zealaud at Wangarei. Wslli>GTOK, September 20. The Provincial hotel, Upper Hutt, wat burued dowu at 3 a.m., tne case being a dofßCtive chimney. Insu ances :—Londi n «nd Lancusiiire, £750 ; Golouial! 1300 ; stock and furniture. New Z© eland idol); Unim, £10!). ; Bichards, the lf-Sioe, estitnttea his loss at £300- abovt the latter amounts. The iumates had a narrow escape, other buildings were slightly damaged. In the reference to the Loan Conversion scheme alluded to in last night' £ cable news, the Post states that it it simply the maturing of arrangements winch have been in pieparation for some time past". Two five p9r ceut loans amounting- together to about £1,600,000, are just about falling due.' It has been arranged that they should be converteo into new 3£ per cent, issue. The Bank of England has undertaken to float the new loan. The conversion will result in a clear saving to the colony of aboul £24,000 a year, and other loans will mature in the course of the next two oi three veaia which can be &iuiilarly opaiated upon. At the E.M. <'ou.it Wilhain Edwii Bannister, lat© clerk in the Postal Department, was committed for trial on tw< further charges of having ilelauded th. Government by m&ans of niouej; orders, The other charges against the aotuse were dismissed. .'■; This Day. The total number of unemployed noA\ in the colony is 2377* -< • , The following are prize winners at th« sN.Z. Academy of Fine Arts Exhibitior ■ opened to-day : — Landscape "in oil, H. M Gore ; Panels in oil, Miss F. E. Richard' son ; President's prize, Still Life, Miss M Hill ; model bust, Miss H. M % Archibald instantaneous photographs, Henry Wright untouched landscape photo, F J. Halse. Dcnkdin, September 19. Lord Carrington has sent a cable message, to the effect that he intends bem£ present at the opening: of til© lixhibitiop. The ; employes in the boot factory oi Simon Bros, ceased work this morning m ; consequence of a dispute as to pneep to i be paid for meting. Snow fell for about hours this morning atTapanui. 'Jheistchubch, September -19 s The Sydenham Borough School Committee has leased the Oddfellow's" Hall foi six mouths to accommedate 200 scholar who were till now crowded but of echoo^ i AucKLAND,"September 19. The adjourned meeting of creditors of Adam "Laybourne, merchant was held f to-day. It was resolved that an ex j;tiaustive investigation should be made mtovthe state : of the books from January, Two hundred oases of apples from Cali forma by the Mariposa were found to be infected by the codlin moth. The Customs authorities theiefore prohibit there landing here, and the cases were taken on toSydtiey.i ■■: '■ The : Tarawera took about 500 ton a breadstuff s and grain, to Sydney. Thirty three head of Hereford cattle purchased for breeding purposes : were; also^sQipped by the same vessel. . ' '.'■■'■'.< .'• ; • '!■: A comet; has 1 ' been disc byered "at an elevation of a' 'tew degrees 1 above 'tVf northern hdnzou. It is thought ;to bithe comet seen ; atpNew.; York on July; 6 Invrrcabgilli. September 19. V' After a very fine winter: the •■weather has been broken and inclement, with heavy hail showers. .;..; -■,■'■-.*■■ : ; av