INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 1, 17 June 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PKB UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION. I ' Auckland, June 14. , Three important despatches from the : Queen of Barotonga for the governor of , New Zealand, the High Commissioner of . the Western Pacific, and her Majesty . Queen Victoria, relating to the managef ment of affairs in the Hervey Group, have . come by the Torea from Barotonga. ', Sir O. iVt. O'Borke addressed his con- • stituents at Onehunga, and received a [ rote of confidence. Chhistchuhch, June 16. [ Mr Frederick Jones, M.H.8., is still i suffering severely from la grippe. Bishop Julius has announced his deter- ■ mination to make the Cathedral services i more snited to the masses. A cable message was sent from Christ- > church to-night on behalf of the Irishf men of Canterbnry, congratulating Mr i O'Brien on his marriage, i The Key J. Gibb. against whom proceedings were recently commenced by Mr A. 0. Begg on a charge of heresy, has ' received letters of sympathy from the officebeares of the church, and also from the members of the various societies connected with the church. JSapieb, June 16. A man named Charles Higgms. licensee of the Crown Hotel at Norsewood, to-day attempted suicide by hanging himself by a swordbelt to the banisters. He was discovered before life was extinct, but lies in a precarious condition. Wellington, This Day. The Native Department has received a telegram from Mr Bishop, 8.M., at Hokianga, stating there are two or three cases of some loathsome disease among the Maoris at Herekmo, but whether it -is leprosy he cannot say.