INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 85, 8 January 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PKB -UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)" Ch-Blstchubch, January ft This forenoo.i the body of a man named George VYillmot was found fl>at* ing In the harbour at Lytteltony close tothe ocean steamers' wharf.. Willniofc has been living in a small shed on the reclaimed ground for some time, and was. last soon nt 11 p na. on Monday. Ifc is= supposed' that he was going home when, he foil over the wharf. He was about 40 years of age, and a native of Hobart.. To-day a petition was lodged against the return of. Mr Joyce for Akaroa on the ground that all the polling places in the district were not closed at the same hour v Lyttelton closing' at 7 and the others at 6. Keefton, January 6. A petition was lodged this afternoon by:Mr John Drake against the return of MrR. Reeves for Inangahna. Sir R. Stout and Mr Free, of Reefton, have been retained for the petitioner. It is underßtool that the petition has been lodged under the 29th elmise of the Election Petitions. ' Act, 1880, thus making the Returning- ' Officer the respondent. So far as can ba learned the grounds are that votes were disallowed that should have been allowed, also other irregularities on the part of the Returning Officer. The case will proßably be heard in Nelson, Wellington, January 6. At the annual meeting of the Gear Meat Company the balance- sheet showed a reserve fund of ; £20,000 ; insurancereserve, £8374; amount carried forward, £3657. The report recommended the payment of a ten per cent dividend, and a boaus of 2£ per cent, making l' 2£ ger cent for the year. v Lyttelton, January 6. A coachbuilder named " Prince, of Christen urch, who was under medical treatment for drink, died in the gaol this morning. Inybkcabgill, January 6» The petition against Legislative Council appointments has been forwarded to the Governor with over 1000 signatures. 1 V Auckland. January 7. ' The Colonial Sugar Kefining Cotnpan7 have reduce:! the prices of their Nos. 1, 2, and, 3 sugars 10s per ton. Wjß->TPoar January 7. Joseph Robert iSiuailes died suddenly at the .Hospital" yesterday. Deceased was admit'.ed to the institution on Moaday night, suffered from diarrhoea. He leaves a w ; fp. who resides at Brunnerton.. In. the Eesid3nt Magistrate's Court today " Captaiu " Dawson, " Lieutenant '* Close, aud "Private" Goodman, local Salvationists,, charged with causingobstruction in the street, were convicted and diseh&rged with a caution. '