INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 88, 23 January 1892, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PGE UNITED PfiRBS A83OOIATION). Wellington, This Day. The Eegatta passed off successfully. The Mascote, from Lyttelton, won the championship yacht race. The conferences held this week by the Ministers and the Public Trustee with the settlers and natiyes interested in the TaraDaki " confirmed leases " have resulted in an understanding which is expected to pave the way for a settlement of the difficulty to be made final by legislation next session. The native owners are disposed to agree to renewals of the leases for 21 years at rentals calculated at a rate of five per cent upon the yaluo of land with improvements, and this the Bottlers will accept rather than have their holdings submitted to competition in the open market. The Monowai with the English mails of December, left 'Frisco for Auckland on the 12th inst five days late. The Alameda with December- January colonial mails reached 'Frisco from Auckland on 21st mst. contract date. A young man named Petien Cheyne, a lineman in the employ of the Telegraph Department, was killed instantaneously this afternoon by falling from the top of a telegraph pole. Masteeton, This Day. A man named John Thompson was arrested yesterday suffering from religious mania. He was singing and praying on the Upper Tauera road and when remonstrated with stabbed himself in the chest, inflicting a nasty wound. He also cut himself about the legs. He will be sent to the Wellington Asylum. Oamaru, January 22. A meat truck, while tendering the ship Sutterworth, was caught by a rope from the vessel, and hauled off the rails on to the ship's side. Five sailors were sent aloft to the mainyard to prepare a block and tackle to lift the the truck, but the truss broke and the yard fell to the deck. A seaman named Frauk Eeid was pitched head first into the hold and killed instantaneously.