INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 77, 28 September 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Chbistchurch, September 27. News has just been received of the death of Mr John Fulton, Manager of the Colonial Bank. He had an apoplectic fit early this morning and never rallied. He had been manager for sixteen years, and was much respected. The Sydenham Borough Council has expended L 147 in providing work for the unemployed, Wellington, September 27. At the close of Mr G. Nicholl's lecture on China two young men and three young women expressed their willingness to go to China as missionaries. A fierce north-west gale is raging. No damage is reported. This Day. The Justice Department have been enquiring into the allegations brought by a man named Jourberg against the R.M. at the Bluff, referred to an Invercargill telegram. They see no reason to interfere, and have informed Jourberg's counsel that no action will be taken unless he is prepared to bring specific allegations of corruption. M. A. Sbing a Chinaman, who was a passenger by the Hauroto on the way up went mad, and was committed to the Asylum this morning. Auckland, September 27; The first annual convention of the Christian Endeavour Societies was held in the Tabernacle. Oyer 1000 people were present. The premises of Martin and Co., grain merchants, were burglariously entered last night. A safe containing i-40 was drilled half way through. The would-be thieves wrote, in candle grease, on the top of the safe, the words " No time." At a meeting to-night ot the AntiPoverty Society, the organisation was reconstituted as the Ground Bent Revenue League, under the honorary presidency of Sir Geo. Grey, with Mr E. Witby as president. Substantially the rules and platform of the old society were adopted ; it was also resolved to issue a manifesto. At the Waihi gold mine, 1605 tons of ore treated at the battery for the four weeks ending 23rd inst. gave a yield valued at £4768, of which L 409 was saved by the cyanide process. In Banco to-day the case of Hugh Rutherford Shortland, solicitor, under the Law Practitioners Act, came before Mr Justice Connolly. The grounds set out by the Law Society for striking Shortland off the roll were his conduct in a libel case and in connnection with a re« tainor and bill of costs in connection with an arson case. His Honor reserved this matter for the consideration of the Court of Appeal at the next sitting.