INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 44, 1 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

m (PER VNITED PHJSSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, This Day. The Stock Conference at Sydney in 1886 recommended to hold meetings triennially, and the Australian Governments propose to hold a meeting in Melbourne in November. New Zealand will probably be represented. It is likely Mr iiiciiaidson will be the delegate. The six boxes of gold which went down with the Koranui'on Wednesday morning has been recovered intact by the divers. Auckland, September 30. It is stated that Mr John Murray and Mr Thomas Peacock, M.H.B. for. Ponsonby, are candidates for the two vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand. A young woman, 18 years old (Miss Winifred Whitelaid) died very suddenly this morning from heart disease. The deceased lady, who recently passed the matriculation examination of the New Zealand University was a teaoher in one of the public schools. Chkistchttbch, September 28. The late Mr W. Robinson's estate was sworn under £350,000, and is left to his daughters for life, afterwards to their children. Mr 0. Murray, of Melbourne, has instructed Mr Joynt, barrister, to enter an action against the executors of the late Mr W, Robinson, as he alleges that he purchased the horse Merrie England from them by wire, and that they accepted his offer and condition. They subsequently found that these conditions could not be fulfilled, and thereupon deeming Mr Murray's sale off sold him to Vernon Musgr'ove and J. A. Randall for £1000. The case comes on next. week. Another mistake was made oyer the same stud. A telegram offering £600 for Chain Shot miscarried prior to the sale, and Bay, therefore, secured him at £450. Archdeacon Julius has cabled accepting the Bishopric of Chris: church. Greymouth, September 29. Mr Kees, who has been prospecting the ground of the Greymouth Dredging and Washing Company, in which English capitalists are about putting machinery, struck a layer of red gravel sft thick with very payable coarse gold. It is believed that a man with a cradle could make £1 a day at it. The ground is a swamp and was never tried before. After long consideration it has been decided to build a bucket dredge to work with in preference to a sand pump. The coal export for the week is 2978 tons. The Engineer of the Manchester Boad Board, Mr C. Bray, invites tenders for forming and cul verting 19 chains on the v Ashiirst-Bunnythorpe road* -;v ; . •