INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 103, 28 October 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Chbistchubch, October 26. The quarterly communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge was held last night Hro. H. Thompson, PGM, presiding. There was a very large attecdance of officers of lodges and members of the Grand Lodge. The reports were anani tnously adopted. The charter question was considered, and amendments adopted. Lt was resolved " That this Grand Lodge will recommend 'a return of all charters immediately on recognition being accorded this Grand Lodge by England, Ireland and Scotland." The next meeting is to be at Oamaru. Auckland, October 27Cable advices have been received from Glasgow announcing the sale of the Talisman ai.d Bonanza mines, situated ;tt Karangahake to a syndicate, one condition of sale being the settling up of an amount of £25, 000 absolutely for tho purpose of working tho mines. The Waikato Agriculturol Show passed off satisfactorily, there being a large number of visitors. Wellington, October 27. In the Magistrate's Court this after" noon a young man named Edward Wade, who was arrested at Palmerston North, was committed for trial on a charge of presenting a revolver nt the daughter of the licensee of the Army and Navy Hotel, Wellington, and demanding drink for himself and two friends. A number of bakers were before the Court today, charged with selling bread short of weight, and fines from L 2 for a first offence to L 5 for a second offence { were inflicted, with costs. Dunedin, October 27. At the last meeting of the Citj Council, an application nas made by Mrs Chapman, wife of a candidate for phe mayoralty, to be placed on the burgess roll, in respect of a greenhouse leased from her husband. The application was declined. . This Day. Owing to very few warehouses or shops observing the holiday, tjie Labor penaonstratiow suffered Rreatly by comparison with previous displays To-day's attractions are the labour sports in St. Clair. . , „„ Inykbcargill, Octpber 2t. It is reported that a dozen of the men sent from Christchurch l»at week to work on the Government co-operative contracts beyond Woiau hare thrown up the job, stating that they are unable to inaVe a livipß^t the wages at bush-felling. T^bey have returned to OtauMu, and suggest that tjiey should have free railway pjwsagp bupk to Cljrislvlwrcii.