INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 121, 4 April 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

... — « (PEE UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION. J' Wellington, Tins Day. The Legislative Council Reform Bill, which the Government intend to introduce next session, will limit the term of office of new members of the Council to seyen years. Auckland, April 2. Captain Castles, of FI M.S. liaoid, and Lieutenant White, torpedo lieutenant uf H.M S Orlando, left to-day for Wellington to inquire into the recent guncotton accident by which two members of the colonial Torpedo Corps lost their Yirvs. .\ circular has been .issued tn the shareholders of the South British Insurance Company stating that the results of the business for .the half-jear just ended are of the most satisfactory character, and that the Directors intend to pay on the Bth inst. ah interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent per annum. A citizens' ball to the Governor and the Countess of Onslow took place to* higMin the Choral' Hall! About' soo were present, including the Vice- Regal party. Admiral ■ Lord Chas: Scott and Lady Chas. Scott, and a large number of officers of the fleet and officers -f the Austrian warship Saida. /The hall was splendidly d oorated, and the function * s one of the most brilliant for years pit - A deputation from the, Operative Bootmakers' Union waited on Mr J. M. Sliera, M hi-fi., ar.Uobson's/rboms yesterday. evening, to lay before him a statement of their side of the presen; dispute. One of thepuiplovers.'wh'-nifi tertriewed »n the subject, stated flint thr object of the southern employers ..ami operatives was to ia*ku price's to kill tin* Inckland (rale," and «he Auek'hnl optatives were foolishly falling into the trip April 3. The Te Aroha election *a> doctored viod, each party to pay it own outs. - Nelson, Ar.ril 3. ' Bishop- Suter was struck down by a apoplectic seizure yesterday evening He is slightly better to-day . ' M astebton, April 2. The, total number of sheep forwarded by rail from Masterton for 12 months ending March 31st, was 10,421 ; the wool •;ent during the season was 6181 bales. Thomas Longran ami John Peterson were each sentenced to a month's imprisonment at the Pahiutua E.M. Coun yesterd.-iy.for disturbing the Salvationists on Saturday last. Punedin, April 2 The Otago A. and P. Association ram and ewe fair was held at Burnside to day. but it being so late in the season th«uutnber of entries was .small. Lincoln.and Southdowns were dull of sale; Eom* ney,Marsh and Merino were conspicious by their absence, although there was some enquiry for Boraney. Border Leicesters brought from 2\ guinea's to 10£ guineas, the latter price being paid for one of Mr Murdoch's Centre Park breed Chbistchubch, April 2. ■ An officer of the G-overnmentLife In surance Department, now in Christchurch. gives an emphatic contradiction to the rumour that anything has been written i iff (he mortgage values. Not a pennj reduction, he says, has been necessary.