INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 150, 12 June 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PKR UNITBD PRKSS ASSOCIATION. I Auckland, June 10. < A native named Te Weheni, brother o the well-known chief Wahanui, .died las ; week. A number of natives say that afte the body was put into the coffin three dis tinct knocks were heard on the lid, and ' it is alleged by some of them that th< man was not dead. June 11. The Waipa County Council have de 1 cided to ask kindred bodies throughou the Waikato to priteot with them again- » the introduction of stoats and weasels. 5 At a meeting of the Tailoresses' Unio. ' to consider the starting of a co*operaliv< > factory, the question was deferred pend ing replies from Dunedin as to the sup 1 port likely to be received. The strike, si > far, has cost £189. of which £136 18s 10c has been contributed by the other Unions ' including £50 from Dunedin tailoresses. \ Westport, June 10. This afternoon a man named Davie Mclntyre, while walking under the coa staiths, fell into the river aud wa drowned. The body was recovered ai hour afterward. A passage ticki-t fo Auckland was found on the body. It i supposed that Mclntyre came from Litlli h Grey. ' Christchubch, June 10. } Mr Justice Oenniston to day refuset j to grant a discharge to a labouring mar who showed liabilities to his butcher , baker. &c, to the amount of £53, anc t asserts nil. His Honour declared th.it such an attempt to get rid of liahilitiei was not honest, and that the Bankru >tci Court was not intended to assist mea o that kir:d to wipe off their debts and retail I their only asset— their labour. [ Wellington, June 11. The Education Deportment will shortlj , i<sue a circular to the Boards of Education ' tion in the colony suggesting the desirableness ■ ableness of adopting a uniform set o class books in all schools in New Zealand The Evening Press states : — " Ye are i informed on good authority that his Excellency the Governor has intimated to the authorities of St. Paul's Pro Oathe drai Church that the Government House sittings will not be required after tin end of the present year.