INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 100, 25 October 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

ANOTHER GOVERNMENT LAND PURCHASE. (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Haweb*, This Day. The Government have purchased the Ngaire Block of seven thousand acres at 10s per acre. Newton Fairs has been remanded on two charges under the Bankruptcy Act. There are 650 entries for the Egtuont A. and P. Show. Gisborne, October 24. John and Joaeph Brown were committed for trial for stabbing George Timms, in a row on the night of the 11th inst. Auckland, October 23. A number of shipwrights have petitioned the Harbor Board to Jet their works on the co-operative principle, otherwise through insufficiency of work, they will have to leave Auckland. The commission appointed to meet Mr S. J. Neall, re alleged theosophical pro* clivities, left for the Thames to-day At the meeting of the Anglican Diocesan Synod, the commission recom* mended — (1) That religious instruction be giTGQ ia the first half Lour of each school day, and that it be commenced with the Lord's prayer ; (2) that such in struction be given by responsible teachers of the school. Nblson, This Day, Robert Levein, merchant, a resident of 27 years, died early this morning aged 58. He was universally esteemed The preliminary inquiry into the grounding of the steamer Grafton on the 14th when leaving Nelson for Wellington has been held, the evidence showed there was no blame attachable to anyone, the vessel being caught suddenly by a rush of the tide. Invercargill, October 24. This afternoon Mrs and Miss Liddell, of Winton, with two young children, went for a drive, but had not got clear of the township when the horse bolted and capsized the trap. Mrs Liddell's leg and arm were broken, and Miss Liddell broke n bone of her ankle. The children were not hurt. __^______