INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 70, 20 September 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Gisborne. September 19. A Maori girl, aged 1G years, named Atueria lloroa, committed suicide by hanging herself to a tree because her father wonld not allow her to marry the man she loved. Wellington, September 19. Miss Emily Grace, the eldest daughter of Dr Grace. M.L.C., was married to-dny to Mr Chas. P. White, of India. Mr White, who is in the service of the Prince of Morvi Knttaiwar Peninsula, Bombay, takes his wife back with him after a brief stay in Wellington. The Prince gave him a thousand rupees as a wedding present. The fifth annual exhibition of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, and the first held in the new gallery, was opened by His Excelleucy the Governor. About 320 entries were sent in and of these some 258 are hung and upwards of 60 rejected. In point of numbers this shows on increase over the exhibits of last year. Major Somerville, Chairman of the New Zealand Rifle Association, has re* ceived a sheet programme ot the Victorian meeting, which opens on November the •i.'ith. The prize list has been framed on the usual liberal scale and it is expected that a large number of New Zealuuders will attend. A public meeting of citizens will be held on Thursday to consider what steps should be taken to perpetuate the memory of the late Mr W. 11. Levin. Auckland, September 19. At the University Council, the chairman, Sir M. O'Rorke, said he had writton to the Government asking for the services of the Agent-General in selecting a suitable gentleman as successor to Professor Aldis. In reply he had received a refusal. The President of the Chamber of Commerce received a telegram from Mr Thomas Thompson, M.H.R., stating that the Postmastor-Geneiiil bus decided not to alter the new 'Frisco service time-table. This Day. In the Supremo Court Judge Conolly gave judgment as to the construction of the will of Matthew John Goodson, late of llawera. His Honor held that Bertha and Ada Mary Goodson, unmarried daughters were entitled to receive respective legacies of £2000, and also their share of the residue npou attaining the age of 21 years. Wanganci, This Day. The District Court was occupied till 11.30 last night takiug evidence iv the Stockboy case. The Court then ad« journed till three this afternoon, when counsels' address will be given. CnuisTrnnncn. September 10. The imrsos of the f-liriatehiirfh Hospital liavn adopted an ont-door uniform similaz' to that in use by tho nurses of tho London hospitals. Tho rosult of a ballot taken by tho Cantorbury Liberal Association for candidates to stand in tho liberal interest for the throe Chnstchurch seats at tho approaching olcction, gavo overwhelming inajoritios in favor of tho lion W. P. Hooves, and Messrs W. W. Collins and E. Sand" ford, in tho ordor named. DuNtuiN, This Day. Tho Government intends setting aside Resolution Island, on the West Coast, ay a reserve for native fauna ,'aud it is understood thut a curator will be appointed, the Otago Acclimatisation Society having offered £60 towards the cost of a bouse,