INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 107, 2 November 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Chßistchuhch, .November 1. At Rangiora 10-day Sydney Head, clerk to the Oust Road Board, was charged with embezzling £23 os monies of tbe Board, and remanded till Tuesday. H. W. Batger has raided to the New Zealand Amateur A'hleiic Association offering to represent Ne-r Zealand at tbe Australasian Championship Meeting if his expenses are allowed The Association replied that they would be glad if he would compete, but that no funds are ayailable for his expense-; At Lyttelton R.M. Court t » <*ay Edwin Robert Curtis, a boy employed as messenger by the Union Steutnship Co., was charged with having uncustomed goods in bis possession, namely, a travelling bag containing bieyclo gear and trophies won at the championship meeting in Australia. Although no fraud was intended, the Bench bad not alternative but to inflict a fine of £9 and costs. Auckland, November 1. A band-cart man named David Oliver died suddenly from rupture of a blood vessel. At the inquest on Charles Augustus Slater, recently arrived from Melbourne, a verdict of fouud drowned wag returned. Wellington, November 1. At tbe annual meeting of Ihe Wellington Woollen Company held last night a resolution was moved that T. Kennedy McDonald be removed from the office of director of the Company. After con siderable debate Mr McDonald chal lenged the whole of the directors to retire from office and go to the shareholders, but the challenge was not taken up. Tbe total of tbe Ballance fond is £642. At a meeting of the committee a letter was read from Mr C, Mills, M.H.R., indicating that members of Parliament thought a scholarship would be the hest memorial. Opinions were divided, a statue, a bust, and a painting, being suggested. It was decided to wait on Sir James Hector and Mr Habens to see what means there were of founding a scholarship. Tbe Rugby Union bave secured 10 acres near Newtown Park which they intend to form into a football ground, to which admission can be charged. i In the Supreme Court to-day, judg* ment was reserved in the appeal case of Nankivell, licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel, who had boen fined £'10 for Sunday trading in supplying beer to two men, ono of whom stated they were travellers. Dunedin, November 1 At a meeting of the Presbyterian Synod to-day, a report on the state of religion stated, with reference to commercial morality, that there seemed to be a general consensus of opinion tbat the maxims which form the working creed of the commerce of to-day come far short of the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount.