INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 104, 24 February 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

1 PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION./ Auckland, February 23. Mr David Goldie has resigned his seat in the House and on the City Council and Education Board, as he has to leave for Melbourne on urgent business in a few weeks and may not be back" in time for the meeting of the House. He has written to Sir George Grey asking him to stand for the seat, and to the chairman o£ his committee to the same effect. Maud Harding, a girl of fourteen. <ras drowned at Motutapu on Saturday. Sheaccompanied a picnic pnrty of CollinsBios.' employes on ike steamer Maori,, and was one of seventeen who were being conveyed ashore in a dingy when the little boat upset. The others were all saved. The bodies of John Burnside ani Alfred Sierens, drowned in the -Pom boat accident, hare been recovered. There is no sign of that of the fourth young man Hale, and it may be that. his ~!flj body hud been swept out to sea. DuNEDtN, February 23: . Subject to ratification by the annual meeting next month, the business of tW Equitable Insurance Association has been sold 1o the Union Ins urn nee Company. The Wesleyan Church have established a mission in New Gu nea and amon? the first missionaries will be the Rev S, B: , Gel lows, who is at present in ohtrge oE the western district of Southland, who vo'untecred for mission work some time ago. . Wellington, This Day, Up to the present the Property Tax received for the year, amounts to £337,000, and several postal advices are yet to come,, and when these are added, and Fire Insurance Companies Tax, due on the sth M archis received, it is expected that the Treasurer's estimate of .£355,000 will be fully realised. :