INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 19, 2 August 1892, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PBB UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION). Wanganpi, July 31. A general meeting of the Wanganui United Farmers' Association was held to-night to consider the question of the power of acquiring freeholds. It was decided to petition Parliament asking that power be given, and also asking an extenfion of the time for compulsory residence to the end of th<j fourth year. This Day. The magisterial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the wreck of the schooner Edith May commenced this morning before Mr C. E. Kettle, E.M., and Captain Adams, nautical assessor. The case is now proceeding and is expected to finish this evening. Woodville, This Day. The Grand Master, Bro. Nichol, visited the Ruahine Lodge last evening and presented the charter. The meeting was largely attended from twenty miles round. At the banquet five guineas were collected for the Widows and Orphans' Fund. He meets lodges Abercorn and Bedford tonight at Waipawa. Christchubch, July 31. On Friday night Mrs Power, widow of Michael Power, of Ohoka, was drowned in a well at her house. She had been in low spirits before for some time, nnd went out about 11 p.m. Her daughter went to look for her, but could not find her. After a long search her body was found in the well about midnight. Auckland, «luly3o. The whaling industry has been sue cessful in the North this season. Cook Bros, have captured three whales be« tween Cape Brett and Whungarei. August 1. Sir George Grey left to-day by the Takapuna for Wellington, to attend his Parliamentary duties. Wellington August 1. In the Bankruptcy Court J. H. Pol lock's, butcher and turf commission agent, discharge was suspended for sir months, on the ground that a short time previously he had been through the Court. This Day. A fire was discovered on the schooner Janet Ramsay at 4 a.m. It had got a good hold in the galley, but after hard work it was put out. Masterton, This Day. At a public meeting held last night a resolution was paß9ed approving Joyce's Bill, and deprecating the action of any hon member of the House attempting to revive the question of compensation where the recent proposal was lost. Waipawa, I. The man who was crushed by a bullock dray lust Friday died in the hospital on Sunday morning. His name prores to bo William Henry Henwood, and he leaves a wife and five children in Auck* land* Invebcabgill, August 1, Nothing further has so far been elicited to throw any light on the topiri tragedy Inspector Hickson and a number of police officers are still in the district. No one has yet identified the gun. Martov, August 1. A child of Mr A. Fcdericks, of Marton was drowned yesterday in the Tutaenui stream. Mrs Fredericks was absent from home on a visit of sympathy to friends who had just lost a second child from diphtherin. and on returning home she learned with consternation that her own child had fallen into the stream while playing and had been drowned. Beeftojt, Thi6 Day. A fire broke out at tho Club Hotel, at 5 a.m., situated in the central block of Broadwaj, occupied by Patrick Ryan, and owned by Hans Jacobson, The brigade was quickly on the scene but the fire had a good hold, and the building was destroyed, the inmates escaping in their night clothes. Jeffs, a storekeeper, adjoirnug, had his stock ruined, and his building partly dostroyed. Mulligan's store on tho other side was considerably damagod. The brigade was cheered when tho fire was extinguished for their smart work iv coufiuiug the tire.