INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3, 21 June 1890, Page 2

I NTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

■ - -.-«► _ I PEB UNITED PEEBB ASSOCIATION, i Napibb, This Day A spieler named Sorry alias Jones was to-day sentenced to thtee months for vagrancy. In his possession were found false dice. The police reported seventeen spielers in town. • Wanganui, June 19. Major Kemp received a telegram to-day from Mr Lewis, Under-Secretary, stating that Te Kooti, with 200 followers, had left Taupo, intending to come to Wanganui. Major Kemp at once sent men to stop Te Kooti from coming, and wired Mr Lewis that Te Kooti would not come beyond Murimoto, as he had sent messengers to stop him. Wellington, June 20. The tramway strike still continues, and will be carried on without any demonstration being made by the men who have gone out. Dunedin, June 19. The libel case Broad r Tapper, in which £200 damages were claimed,, occupied the Supreme Court to-day. The libel consisted of the writing on a hoard which formed a portion of the shutters of Tapper and Co.'s window of the words ' Broad, Invercargiil spy and the lute post office thief/ The case of the plain* tiff, who had been nfc the post office at Invercargiil and was transferred to Dunedin, was based on the similarity of the handwriting on the board to the defend ant's, who bad been employed for some time by A. Tapper and Co., but left after a dispute Mr Justice Williams gave a verdict for the plaintiff, giving £50 damages. June 20. The agents of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company have received cable advice of the launch of the Company's fifth cargo steamer, for the frozen meat trade, to be called the Pakeha. Like the Kangitira, she will be fitted to carry 50 (XX) carcases of mutton, beside a large quantity <>f dairy produce, it is also intended to increase the meat capacity of the Company's five mail steamers by 5090 carcases each, in view of the increase in tbis branch of the export trade.