INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 152, 18 June 1891, Page 2

INTERPRO VINCIAL NEWS

I PBB, UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION. 1 OaWarit, June 16. -The polling for the election of a Lionrfiag c!i.jiiuiittee hook place to -day and osulted in the rev >rsul of the previous lecisiou of the ratepayers. The polling

was as . billow's : — For the Moderates, 1267 ; for the Prohibitionists, 1082. The number who polled at . the last election was 349, and on the previous occasion, 491. ] Greymouth, This Day. J The Harbor Board knocked all the men" . off in consequence of one of the section- - holders whose grounds the railway passes over, putting a substantial barricade across the passage of the locomotive. He • demanded a heavy rental to use the ground, i As there are about 26 holders along the '< same line, the Board are not prepared to deal with all, and declined to consent to ■ the demand and so stopped the works. Wellington, June 17---s A man named Ross bas been arrested at Eketahuna on a charge of obtaining forty ,head of cattle -from a settler at Rangitikei by false T.reten«es. A woman named Fanny Roscoe was today was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of stealing a bottle of "arsenic, with which, it w;is stated, she intended i to destroy herself. The Supreme Court was occupied all dav hearing the charges preferred against Coleman. Phillips for alleged broach of the Land Act, in connection with property in the Wairarapa district. The case for the Crown w,as not concluded when the Court rose for the day. The Mayors attending ihe Conference lunched with the* Governor to day, and all the delegates haye been invited by the Mayor of Wellington to dinner to-morrow evening. ' . Auckland, This Day. Arrived, at~ 8.30 a.m. — The Alameda, from 'Frisco. • -