INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 4, 24 June 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I FEB UNITED FBESS ASSOCIATION. I C'hristchubch, June 21. A special meeting of the shareholders of the Press Couipanv is called for Wednesday next to consider the best means af raising £20,000 fresh capital. Manata. Jnne 21. The case of Constnble Gillespie is exciting considerable indignation The constable was suspended, but forbidden to laave the township. Nearly four weeks have elapsed and the constable has not yet had any intimation of what is going to be done. The local press considers that a great wrong is inflicted by the delay. Invkrcaegill, June 21. A serious 1 accident occurred to the train from Lumsden to Invercargill this morning, on this side of I 'epton. It ran into a cattle engine, which it derailed and capsized Auckland, June 19. A man named James Shannon was killed to-dny at Ohaupo. He was working on a farm, carting posts, when his horses bolted, and he was so seriously in jured that be died before medical assistance could be procured. Mr F. E. Compton, well known in shipping circles and formerly Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, dropped dead to-day, at ihe Waverley Hotel, where ho had been staving. The deceased leaves a widow and three children. Respecting the Thomas frauds a cable message, to the directors of the Bank of New Ztalmd says that the loss to the bank will not be nearly so great as might be supposed, as the bank becomes entitled to securities valued at some thousands of pounds, which will go in reduction of the Joint Stock Bank's claims. Messrs Cussen and Innes, brewers, Hamilton and Cambridge, were fined £50 each and costs for breaches of the Beer Dutj Act, and their plant forfeited to the Crown. Timaktt, June 23. David Hastings Brown, of the firm owning the Uelford flour mills, was arrested to-night on a telegraphed charge from Christchurch of embezzling £124 ss, the money of the Bank of New Zealand in January, 1889.