INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 26, 4 March 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PRB UNITED PREF3 ASSOCIATION.*! Weilingtos, This Day. Atthcß.M. Court to-day Walter G. Smith, who was arrested at the Bluff for wife desertion, was ordered to pay £2 per week for her support. A conference of tho four Licensing Committees of the city has unanimously decided not to issue any licenses beyond 11 o'clock, and to call on the police to onforco tho provisions of the Licensing Act and the Adulteration Act of last session in regard to tho rending and importation of impure liquors. Major Atkinson, accompanied bj Messrs Seed, Batkin, and Cooper, have been making a series of domiciliary visits to tho various Government Department* to try and learn something about their work and organisation, with a view to retrenchment. Patea, This Day. A child named Lawrence died of sunstroke on Saturday. Makton, This Day. Major Willis, formerly M.H.R- for Hani;ilikei, died on Saturday night. Nklsok, This Day. At the inquest on the body of John Smith Fume**, found drowned, the following letter, posted on Friday evening to Mrs Furucsn, and which had been ob tamed from the Post OtHco by his Kon-in-law with tho permission of lhi> widow, who is in Wellington, was read : — " Mary when y v receive this I will be no more, j Sam and Sarah are as J udas J*cariot They betrayed a man by vaying, whom , soever I put my finger on tak« him. 1 j forgive all jour unkinduoss to mi*. Signed, S. Furness." Tho jury returned a verdict of " Drowned while suffering from torn porary insanity." CintisTojicßcn, Thi* Day. At a meeting of the convocation of tho New Zeulaud Uu voisity yesterday, Mr T. S. Foittor, M.A., wan elvcted ch»ir<uau for tho ensuing throe years. Dumuhk, ihisDaj. The champion bicyclo niatcii for £si), McEenzie, ex-champion of the North of Scotland, v O'Connell, trick bicyclist of Victoria, came off yesterday. Tho match comprised three distances — one, three and five miles. McKensie won the one mile by a few feet after a capital race. O'Donnoll won the three mile, and M cEonzie won the five mile by eighteen inches only, the finish causing a good deal of excitement. Auckland, This Day. A fire broke out at 2 o'clock this morning in Wall's draper shop in Queen street. The brigado wan promptly on the ground, and extinguished it, but great damage done to the stock. Insnranco, £1-HX> in Standard. Wall's stock va< injured for £3000. The |K>lice consider the circumstances of fire suspicious, and are making enquiries. The Schooner Golden Islt*. which arrived last nij;ht from Tonga, brings news of a severe hurrianee which swept over the island on the 7th- of February, lasting till the 10th of February, and did considen&ble damaue to tho houses. Plantation trees were uprooted, but fortunately no Hv?h wore lout. The Golden lute fell in with the hurncano when about 20 miles off the inland, and tbe starboard bulwarks were carried away.