INTERPROVINCIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 64, 8 February 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(united press association.) Greymouth. Feb. 7. Steps are being taken towards the erection of a convent at Ahaura. At a first meeting m connection with, the matter £500 vcas collected m the room. Wellington, Feb. 7. The property-tax paid for the financial year amounts to about £loo,ooo. Auckland, Feb. 7. Mr Norchcroffc, the Waikato magistrate, recently committed Walker and other Waikato magnates for trial on a charge of taking forcible possession of land. A memorial to the Minister of Justice adverse to Ncthcroft has been prepared, and is now m course of being signed. Its allegations are a sense of insecurity to the persons end property of the inhabitants, and its , conclusions are that immediate steps bn taken for his removal from the bench. The Wesleyan Conference has closed "itsj sittings. A number of members left by'the Wanaka. The remainder go b" the Rotomahana on Thursday. It is agreed that the next meeting of the conference shall.be held at Wellington. : ' '■ Tauranga, Feb. 7. A party often Armed Constabulary men arrived at Taupo on Saturday m charge of .Sergeant Brown, of Tarawsra. They have made an average of twenty miles a day from N a pier to Taupo. The weather was very hot and the road dusty. : Mr Wright an party left on Saturday to survey the line of road from Taupo to Tokano. Kingi Heri Keikei, and the obstructionists have left for Patea. Christohurch, F»b. 6. There is much activity among the newly enrolled volunteers. Paraies are well attended, and the punctaaMty is good. Recruits are easily drilling, and picking up their duties rapidly.