INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 58, 2 November 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(per united press association.) Palmerston North,' This Day. A nine roomed house, ocoupied by F. Pirani, was burned down this morning — origin, defective chimney. The inmates escaped with their lives only. Dunkdin, October 31. The first cake of gold from Nenthorn digg : ns, weighing 4530z, was brought down last night by escort. At Lawrence, Simpson and Hart, brewers, of Weutherbtoues,' were fined £100 and costs for a breach of the Beef Duty Act. At.a meeting of the Exhibition Commissioners to-day it was decided to give lour pnzea for the band contest on March 14 and 10, as follows :— First, £100 ; second £45; third, .£3o; fourth, £20. The Directors of the National Insurance Company, in their annual report, recommend a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, leaving ±,4278 to be. carried forward. This Day. The Commissioner for New South Wales (Oscar Meyer) in consequence of a misunderstanding between the Executive and himself, yesterday caused the hands to the number of fifty-two who were employed by him, to be assembled and inarched out of the building, thus closing all work in the New South Wales Court Wklmngton, November 1 The Customs returns for October were £11(5, 548, to which something less than £100 will have to be added for Westport, as against £146.310 for September, and £124,553 for. October last year, and £4060 for September -last. The Government' Insurance Depart* .raent, which has been paying a lump sum uf £2000 per annum for tho carriage of its letters, is to have , a special postage stamp bearing a lighthouse on the face, with the words " 3oyernuient security " printed across it. It is estimated that £2000 is too much, and a saving will bo effected by paying for postages in the usual way. ■The question as to whether the deficiency and ohargfafj on the loan have to be provided out of current revenue, has been set at rest by information received by the Government from the agents for the inscribod sto'ik, to the effect that they had created ample stock to provide for costs and charges. ' . This Day. The Government Auditor h*-; olj acted o pass the amount voted by the City Council as a contribution to the cost of the Post Office clock, on the ground that there is nothing in the Act enabling them to do so. It was pointed out the Council, had iust as much right to devote the money to this purpose as the Harbor Board, whose action had not been questioned and it was decided to let the Auditor take legal action if he chose. ! The Agent-General has forwarded a i letter and specimen of a new species of sisal, which is especially grown in the sterile soil of the Bahamas, where the governor of that colony is doing all He can to foster its cultivation. ;:Sir Dillon Bell fears it wDI develop in to a formidable enemy of New Ze.iland flax, as the cost of the dressed fibre hardly amounts to i'lo per ton, bnt the specimen forwarded, which will be seat to Dunedin, is very rough indeed and fit apparently for coarse matting and cordage only. Chb:btchukch, November 1. The entries for the Canterbury Metropolitan Show nnmber 1450, as against 1497 in 1883, and 1429 in 1887. The de-' crease n due to the~ sheep owners, who protest aguinst exhibiting against housed and clothed merino sheep, there being 313 entries less in that class this year. ' A cckla ND. November 1 . A fishing yacht, the Euiry, was wrecked in Hauiaki Gulf on Wednesday. The crew, two men named Glower and Simpson and a boy named Malone, had a narrow escape of drowning, but succeeded in clambering on a small level patch of rock, where they remained for two daye uutil rescued,