INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 8, 3 July 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I ♦ I ' IPBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.,! Auckland, July 1. The Waikato Farmers' Club have passed a resolution protesting against the [ introduction of stoats and weasels, j he wellkuown theatrical busineas manager, Mr Hughes, has received s cable message asking him to book dates for vl r J. L. Toole for nine weeks* tour of the Colony, commencing 29th September, and for the Brown- Potter Company for a season of eight weeks from Christmas. Both companies will commence in the South and play up the coast. > Uhkistchithch, July 1. Three— men G-eo. Wilby, Frank Wilson and Hugh O'Connell— were arrested to-day at Kaiapoi on suspicion of burglary at Rangiora railway station. I The annual meeting of the Fruitgrowers Association to-night passed a telolution^ that every effort ba made to organise a fruit export trade. The Industrial Association to-night passed resolutions that the Government should not manufacture any commodities but call for tenders ; that an increase of the railway rolling stock, further local storage for and an inquiry into the condition of the present rolling stock are necessary. iNVBBCABGILIi, July 2. The body of Bernard Milliean, a settler at Spar Bash, was found in a ditch containing 18 inches of water. He was last seen alive on Sunday, when he accompanied another farmer half way home. Deceased was single. This Day. The Railway Hotel, at Wyndham, occupied by John Managhan, was burned down at three this morning. Very little was saved, and the inmates escaped with scant clothing: Gbbytown N,, This Day. An arbour day festival is being celebrated to-day with great eclat. Wellington, «Tuly 2 In the Divorce Court the Chief Justice made a rule absolute in the case Elley v. EUey (husband's petition), and Seal v. Seal (wife's \ etition). About B.3a o'clock this morning Messrs Cato and McLellan, accountants, entered the strong room of the National Bank, Lambton Quay, and struck a lijjht, and a violent explosion immediately fallowed, Cato being knocked down, while Me Lpllan wns sererly burned about the face Strange no one happened to be passing the Bank at the time, otherwise they could scarely have escaped serious injurA" from the shower of glsss and wood The mjuiy done is estimates under £100 Wooitolle» July 2. An indignation meeting has been called, to protest against the action of the Railway Commissioners in removing the terminal station building. As it has always been a part of the public works policy -that Wood ville, should be- a terminal station, and the ljmildings now being rembveti would have to be replaced on th.- ooiotl'j. [ tionc/ the Ek^ah^iv ■• W.odv^ -a- $!z*. ■'' ' r '.. . ■-■■.■ V- '•