INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 203, 30 December 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

IPBB PBEBB ASSOCIATION.) Duhbpin, December 29. Ibo Hon. J. McKenzie has been arranging details in connection witty the settlement of the property recently purchased at Pomahaka. The survoy is so far advanced that probably the sale wjll take place in two months, Wellington, December 28. The Hessian fly and sparrows bare destroyed 30 per cent of the wheat crop on the Upper Plain in the Wairarapa district. No petition has been lodged against tho return of Sir Robart Stout, and the time under which it could be done, as proyided by law, lias now expired. It is understood the brewers were asked to provide security for the costs if a petition wpre lodged, but they absplutely declined to havo anything to do with it. Chiustciiukcii, December 39. Tho Pareora Block, near Timaru, rei cently aoquirod by Government frqiri the New Zealand and Australia Land Campaoy, was allotted at the Land Ofl|oe to* day by ballot. The Block was divided into 29 sections from 10 aoree to 20 aoros

area, the half-yearly rent rnDging between £5 and £9. There were 380 applicants, all except three sections being applied for and allotted. * ; Auckland, December JJ9. At the sale of the Rotorua township there was keen competition for the business sites, which in cases brought double the upset rentals. The lotahsator receipts on Cup day at Ellerslie were £800 under those of last year, owing, it is alleged, to certain visit ing bookmakers laying totahsator odds. The A.R C. called a meeting and decided to warm four of them off the course. Fenwick has again won the Champion* sh;p Cup of the New Zealand Lnwn Tenuii Association. Having now won it for the thrrd time, it becomes his own property. Miss Splen won the Ladies' championship.