INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 44, 26 September 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

«. , (PKR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Oamabu, September 24 • Mr Dunn, who is opposing Mr Hislop ' for the Oamaru seat, addressed a large 1 meeting of electors to-night. The candidate's remarks were mainly directed ' against Mr Hislop. At the conclusion of the speech he was accorded a vote of r thanks and confidence, j A cckland. September 24. 5 The deed of composition of Messrs Fraser and Sons, bankrupts, granting os in the pound on all debts due for wages and 2s in the pound on all other debts, has been sustained by the Supreme Court. "' It is said that Dr Honeyman and Mr John Hay, two well knowu residents in this city, are tbe chief legatees of an estate valued at £3,000,000 left by a i '"' relative, Mr" Berry, who died recently in i Sydney. i At 'a meeting of lodge St. Andrew's S. C. Brother Macrae, onTbehalf of the late i Brother Mr Justice Gillies, presented to the Lodge a French manuscript of Freemasonry over 100 years'' old, supposed to be the original ritual of the Grand Orient of France. Wellington, September 25. The Huia, whicb grounded at Foxton a few day age, was floated off . at 10 o'clock this tnorning. The Mayor has received a letter from one of the- Wellington leading citizens, intimating that, with a view to commemorate the jubilee of the foundation of the; colony, he is prepared to give the sum of; £1000 towards the formation of a free public library in this city. Duriug thiß proceedings at the Dioscesan Synod it come out that the eloction , of Bishop -Hadfield to the Primacy of the colony has been challenged by the Diocese of Wellington, and the case, setting, out circumstances, awaits the decision of the Standing Orders Committee of the General Synod. The publication of this fact has excited some interest, in church circles, This Day. 1 There is every probability that Captaiu Russell will join the Government, uot as ( Jolonial Secretarj' but Minister of Education. In the Masterton District Court yesterday, before Judge Eobinson and a jury, Thomas Maxted, of Pahiatua, sued the Bank of New Zealand for _5250 for dishonoring his cheque for __2 when there were funds to his credit. Verdict for £25 and .£lO 6s"costs. ....... -..-•.. Judge Richmond has granted the discharge of Cooke, a solicitor, who was recently arrested for contempt of court. Tlmaru, September 25. Alex. Crombie, of Kingstown, was shooting here this morning, when , the; gun exploded, shattering his baud (and blowing his nose off. ' - Wanganui, September ,25 - At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-i day a grocer named Caiman was.fined j 40s and costs for -giving a receipt without! - a stamp on it. His defence was that he; had given a stamped receipt: at the -time; . of pjyme.it, and when the account wa-; produced later on he did v , not ".think itj necessary to put on a stamp in acknow- \ Ledgiug the same payment.,,- .-'Mi: Brabant,' B. M., held that both documents required- • a stamp. .';.''. 0 ' '■'; • : „ „ Donedin, 'September 25— I .•■ The case of . Dalbedyhlt^v. CDalbedyhll. | the wife's, .petition, for- divorce thej grounds, of .cruelty and^adu^tery. ' was! partly, heard, to.T.clay, ..buVOuot^concluded. l