INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 58, 6 September 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

500 DEATHS FROM MEASLES. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Septembers. Arrived — Upolu, from Samoa and Tonga. She reports affairs quiet in the Samoa group. Five hundred deaths from measles have occurred in Tonga. The disease is noir abating. The fatalities include many Government chiefs. At the Police Court, Dennis Sullivan was charged with having stolen one black and white tame rat, value 3s, the property of Elias Robinson. Dr. Giles said there was no need to proceed, as the case must be dismissed. He was quite sure that a charge of the larceny of a rat would not lie. It was stated that Robinson made his living by breeding these rats as curiosities, and keeping them in cages for sale. The first case in Auckland under the Protection of Children's Act was heard at the Police Court to-day, when Kate Donoyan was charged with ill-treating her son, aged eight. The case was discharged. GisnoßNß, September 5. Allan Macdonald, formerly M.H.R. for the East Const, left Dnnedin in the middle of May last by the Rotomahana. On her arrival at Melbourne on May 24, he put up at Otago Hotel, Flinders street, and after depositing his luggage in a bedroom, went out and has not since been heard of in Melbourne. Pahi.vtua, This Day. The poll on the question of whether a borough loan should be raised to build a bridge across the Mangatainoka river was taken yesterday, and resulted in a majority in favor of the loan. 138 voted for the loan and only 6 against, absentees making up the total. Wellington, This Day. The Kaikoura from London, via way ports, arrived at 4 a.m. this morning. She left Plymouth July 25th, and had an uneventful passage. She brings 127 passengers and 2000 tons of cargo for all parts. Captain Forbes, late of the Otarawa, is in command- He was recipient of a handsome illuminated address by the passengers. Hokitika, September 5, The Supreme Court was occupied all day with the libel case, Michael v. Bevan, two well-known merchants. The Judge summed up strongly for the defence, but the jury bronght in a verdict for j£so damages. A thousand pounds was sued for. The libel case, the Grey Jockey Club against the Christchurch Press will be takon to-morrow. Dunkdin, Sept. C>. At Kelso, a resolution was passed as follows : — This meeting is strongly of opinion that the principles of the Government Licensing Bill are against the interests of democracy.