INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
(PEit UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, September 23, The Minister. of Lands, with a view to stopping the practice of putting in half a dozen applications for sections at land sales, intends on the next occasion to put choice sections up to auction for cash sale. He thinks this -will check the species of dumuiyisin known to be carried on. Additional surveyors are to be put on in Auckland, tfawke's Bay and Wellington to get land ready for settlement. Duxedin, September 23. James Shand, a well-known resident of the Taeri, has been missing since Friday last and his coat aud stick have been found on the river bank. His friend are very uneasy, and he was in a depressed state of imud and suffered frotn insomnia. En the Bankruptcj' (Jourt John Ford, grocer, has his certificate suspended for two years. The United Hercules and Roxburgh Sluicing Company, which has recently got to work, washed up 7oozs on Saturday for 59 hours' work. A new stock exchange has just been formed in Dunediu, the original list closing with the names of 12 firms. G. S Brodrick is the first chairman. The Brokers Association receh tly raised the entrance fee to 4*50, and the uew exchange is understood to be the outcome. Auckland, September 23. A French gumdigger named ' Francis was drowned on Saturday while proceeding m an open boat to the Hold where he was working. The weather was so squally that his mates;. -would, not accompany him, and halfcan hour after he left, the boat capsized in a squall. Wvipawa, This Day. The Ormondville hotel was burned down last night. The hotel had just changed hands. Insurances not known here. Chrtstchuech, September 23 The Midland Railway Company are calling tenders for five contracts, over which half a million pounds will be spent. Nelson, September 23 Mr Mason, registrar of friendly societies, delivered an addrers in the, theatre to-night before a large assemblage .of; Oddfellows, Foresters, and Eecbabites. He spoke of the unrivalled value of friendly societies as institutions. ; for wage- earners' thrift, and referred to the failure of societies in England and America as a warning to, New Zealand: Societies charging inadequate contributions. He showed that the sickness rate is already higher in old-established Lodgeß here than the English average.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 43, 24 September 1889, Page 2
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