INTERPRONCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 90, 20 January 1891, Page 2

INTERPRONCIAL NEWS.

I PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.!" . Wanganpi, January 19. , Government have arranged for a four years' bi-weekly steam river seryice between Wanganui and Pipiriki, about seventy miles up the riyer, which will be the , means of opening the Waimarino blotik for settlement. Messrs Hatrick and Co. are the successful contractors and intend importing a specially built paddle steamer for the service, which begins as soon as the vessel arrives. - Invergargill, This Day. A gentleman returned from Victoria has brought oyer two small boxes of fruit in powdered charcoal, and the experiment was a complete success. The fruit was picked ripe ten days ago, and opened as fresh as when packed. Thos. Lynch, a miner, was killed by a" i fall of earth at Moki Creek, near Queenstown. : A number of opossums have been sent to the; West Coast Sounds. Auckland, This Day, The residence of H. H.'Lawry; Newmarket, was destroyed by fire last night. At the annual meeting of All Saints', Anglican Church last night it was stated a deficit amounting to £72 was caused by the „ defalcations of D/ Evans, a bankrupt, who recently departed to the Islands without consulting his creditors after the bankruptcy proceedings had been commenced. t .. Blenheim, This Day. Writs claiming £.600 damages have been seryed upon the proprietors and printers of the Christchurch Weekly Press -for an alleged libel that appeared in the paper in October last, referring to Fre 1. Thomas, keeper of an accommodation house at Wairau Valley in connection with the death by drowning of one George Lamb.