INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 141, 22 May 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

i PEH UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I i : Nbw Plymouth, May 21v'i The evidence last night -was respecting the make of the boots found on Mahi when arrested. The inquest -was adjourned at 11.30 last night till two o'clock to-day. ■ " : 1 . .', ■ ' Auckland,. May 20. . Mr Blair, Engineer-in -Ghiaf. for the Coloh/, has gone to Bussell-td inspect the route of the proposed tramway from Kawakawa and Kamo to Puhipuhi. 'L . Seven grocers were fined 40s and, costs each at the Police Court to-day for haying sold gingsr. wine containing alcohol. The samples were found' to haye from 29 to ol* per cent of alcohoL • . ' .xWbEllnoton, May 21. The result of the year's sanction of land on settlement conditions is, considered very satisfactory as regards the number to area, as there are over three selectors under 500 acres for every one above that area. '■'- -•"■ " -■'■ - ; ia ' r " ■ Government haye declined to provide counsel for accused ; at the' murder inquest, at New Plymouth; but in -the 'evien.t' df prisoner being 'committed' "for ; trial I Government -would then engage counsel/ •: -„ „;;;;^vi ¥ ? Hr ,-:- "■- - This Day; ' ••• The Rotorua chiefs'have filed 7 a petition in the Supreme: Court praying 'for an . enquiry an to the mariner lii whioh^ the .Rotorua lands were' leased. ; '•* ? ! •" : ' : _ i ,>.:- : -v GHaiRTCHUBCH^^ray. 21. _,• / A number of medical men waited on the" Mayor tooidav and urged the advisableness of again bringing, the Contagious Diseases Act into operation here. They asserted that its suspension had seriously affected the health and morality j ef the city. The- Mayor promised to. bring the matter before the City Council. '•'•.'■ DnNRDiN, May 21 Eire oases out of twenty-one summonses issued in connection with the strike at Shag Point mine, were heard to-day, and in all but one case ejectment warrants were issued with, costs (18s), the defendants, being ordered to vacate the houses occupied by Saturday. The men intend, when ejected, to pitch tents or put up huts on the foreshore, and watch the course of events. . Havklock, May 21. A man named Dyke. was drowned in the Peiorus river on Tuesday. The body has been faund. ;