INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 88, 18 January 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PJBU UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) '. Patea, January 17. Sixteen thousand three "hundred acres of the Pohokura Block and 1300 acre 3oi the Huiakama Block, inland of Stratford, haye been sold privately to 12 buyers foi bona Jide settlement . Mr Cowern reports that this makes 40,000 acres sold within the last six months on the line that was proposed for the Stratford- Auckland railway route. . Wellington, January 17. The Premier, though better generally, ha 9 fallen off greatly m weight, and will still hare to be in the hands of his doctor for bo me tune to come. The Government have abaodonel the hopes "of haying a big surplus since the Customs have persistently fallen off. ■ The Land fund has also dropped in an unprecedented manner. The customs deficiency has greatly puzzled the officials, who are at a loss to account for it. It was supposed that the direct and indirect outlay on the Exhibition would have palled the revenue up, but it seems to have had little or no effect. Auckland, January 17. An old resident of Whangareij Mr Morrison, has come to Auckland, bringing some very promising specimens from Pubipuhi. The stone shows native silver freely, and Mr Morrison says there are thousands of tons vi the same kind where this was taken from. Dunedin, January 17. Henry Borden, while writing in his b.om«, Castle- street, last night, fell off his chair and died before medical assistance could be procured. It is supposed that the cause was heart disease. He leaves a wife and two children. Mrs Nicholson, wife of a newspaper runner, committed suicide at I^orth-east Valley, taking " Bought on Rats." She had been drinking very heavily. Gbetmouth, January 17Thomas Millican, who attampted sui cide, is out of danger. It is supposed that the conviviality of the holiday was the super-inducing cause.