INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 86, 10 January 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PICK UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.!* Auckland, January 8. Mark Kawlings, a well-known citizen, a member of the Diojesaa Synod, and hitherto highly ' respected, has been arrested for embezzlement of £226, the funds of the Parnell Orphan Home, of which he was the lion, treasurer. Accused is at his residence, and is too ill to be removed to the station. The audit reyeals £1300 unaccounted for. Accused is a member of the firm of • Baber and Rawlings, printers' furnishers. Mark Rawlirigs has been remanded for a week. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, London, have cabled, that the report for the year ended 31sfc December has , been issued. The netfc profit, including £'12,936 brought forward from the previous year, is £92,427. A dividend of 10 per cent is to be paid, and. £20,000 added to the reserve fund. The amount carried forward is £8667, and the reserve now amounts to £310,000. The second cook on board the Waka* tipu, T. J. North, prosecuted Ih-rles Jacobs, a steward, for an assault. North stated in his evidence that his life on board the vessel had been. one of continual misery, beomse nearly all on board were unionists, and he was hot, 'He was subjected ,t-> daily prosecution, sometimes having^to sleep on deck from fear* If something wer« not done be felt sure he would be drowned. The case was dis-« missed. Dunedin, January 8. At the land sale to-day there is a large attendance. The bidding for small grazing runs is brisk, but there is no competition for the pastoral licenses. All the runs but one sold at the upset price. Gamabu, January 8. The Oarnaru Harbour Board endowment, Otematata Station, was offered for sale this morning in six small grazing runs. Five were passed- in without a bid. The remaining one, 160 a. was purchased at the upset rental, £163 15s, with £45 valuation for improyements. , Wellington, January 9. The reduction iv ocean postage docs j not seem to have affected the first mail under the new refine. The Tainui yes* terday only t00k'11,935 letters (including: 70 post cards) as against 9,585 by thelonic in December, and 11,944 by the Coptic in November. The French flagship T)ubourdieu, RearAdmiral Prisrnihil, arrived from Auckland this morning. New Plymouth, January 9. Inspector Pardy yisited Parihaka on Wednesday for the purpose of conveying to Te Wbiti and Xohu the portraits of Lord and Lady Orislow, which the Governor has sent to the propbets as a me* men to of his pleasant visit to the Native village. The Chiefs were greatly pleased at the present. The photographs ara , large and nicely framed. '

Mr E Alexander, the comedian, wha has beeu staying in Feildiug for the last ten days, has joined the Eoj al Dramatic Company. He has been cast m a speeral piece to be played in Wauganui, and which the company will produce here on their return visit. -At a meeting of the local Court of Juvenile Foresters, held last eveum^ the following were elected and installed into their respective offices :r-Bro. K. A. Foster, C.E. ; P.C.R. Bro. J. Evans, 5.0. R .; P.O.R. Bro. A.C. Foster, Secretary ; Bro, G. -F. Fdwles, Treasurer ; Bro. A. Toy, S.W. ; Bro. G. M cAlister, J.W. ; Bro. W. G. Robinson, S.B: Bro. W. Worsfold, J.H. We are informed by the Secretary that the following bands have been entered lor the contest to be held at the Assembly Rooms, Feilding, at Easter: — Wellington Garrison, Grey's private, . Jenkins', Woodville Town, Palmerston Fire Brigade, Marton Royal Rifles, and Feilding Brass. We hope that the members of the local Band will' at once lay themselves out for arood hard practice, so that if they cannot win the first prize, they will make a creditable show.