INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 102, 19 February 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

|PI?R /UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION. '} £xjCKI>kXV, February ■!?< ' \" Information has been received ::. a the Islands of a remarkable voyage bv-v . j by ioui: children, who travelled over ;?.•-•;> miles from Nuiafa, one of theFrieni-V-Group, to Futuuai Island in a 12ft .': ; bottomed dingy. The Island of Futu \ was reached. ou the fourth day. Blenheim, February 17Mr Cyrus Goulter, an old reside. „ .who arrived at Nelson in 1841, died I 1 day. During the era of Provincialism i • occupied several important posts, ai. latterly he devoted his attention 'main, . to the breeding of high class merinos. Chkistchurch. February 17. It is proposed to send a small tee •- - of New Zealand amateur athletes i. England. The Amateur Athletic Assoc.. - atoon Committee meet to-morrow to coif , sider the matter. Some of the princip-. athletes have beeu sounded on the sul loot, and their rephe3 are satisfactory. Dpnedin, February IT. Mr Justice Williams te-day decid* "' that the by-law' of the Cromwell Borou£ i . 'Council, under which, a traveller wiv--.finedfor hawking goods, is ultra vire;, and the conviction was quashed. Wellington; February 18. The Premier is favourably dispos-j \ . towards the idea of amending the L'. v .r 'regarding the proportion' of yot-7-. required to carry proposals for Municipal loans. The Mayor of Petone to-di r , suggested to him that an amending B ; < should be introduced next session, enabS ; mg that, say a three fifths majority ci : the ratepayers who actually vote, shorn? be sufficient ; also, that more than on>=polliug booth be allowed. The Hon. Mr : Ballance expressed himself entirely in sympathy with the suggestion, and 1 i undertook to submit' the matter for the consideration of the Cabinet,- with a view of legislating on the subject next session if the idea met with the support of his colleagues. This Day, The Hon. Mr Larnach . and T. K. Macdonald, M.HJEt., will . probably be two of the Commissioners to enquire into the working. of the Public Trust Office. Nineteen cases against twenty offenders will be heard at the Criminal sessions commencing March 2. There are eight cases of forgery, and one of personation-. Keefton, February iBT A. brewer named Monteith was fined £30 and costs, a total of £31 Us. oh a charge of neglecting to keep books ia. . compliance with tlie Beer Duty Act. Three other charges were withdrawn by. Mr Jiickman. Timabu, February 18. James Dicksoh, a lad of 16, a cadet at the Orari Hailway Station and Post; Ofißi*e, was rem;mded to-d»y till Friday on a charge of stealing a £5 note from a. registered letter. The letter contained two £5 notes and a cheque, and one note-, only was abstracted. The letter was transmitted, and bore no mark of having been tampered with. The lad- admitted tne tlieffc, and said he bad sent the money away in part payment for a bicycle.