INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 50, 9 December 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[P! R U .VITED PRKS3 ASSCoIATION.] JS'ew Plymouth, This Day. At the time of liie internal contact at egress the sun was clear, and an excellent observation of the transit was taken li c on Thursday last, but the external eg re s was not seen. Auckland, This Day. The American observation party report that the observation of the transit of Venus ou 'lhursday morning last was very successful. 21 photos w^re taken up to the time of the inte.-nal contact, when a thin haze o clouds prevented further photography. The photographs will be sent to America by the next outward steamer and the one following to prevent accidents. Wellington, This Day. Excellent observations of the transit of Venus were obtained hereon Thursday morning. A very sudden death oc3urred last night at midnight. A man named Raymond, a carter, on going home, knocked at the door for admittance, and while the door was being opened he fell to the ground, and when picked up life was ex- ' tinct. Decease.!, who had not been long in Welhngton, was in his usual spirits a quarter of an hour before his death ensued — supposed to be trysij e'as of the '■rain. An inquest will be held. The ease of George Longhurst has not yet been finally dealt with by the C; b net. It is considered indispensable thai Mini.-ters should be in possession of a complete record of the case in all its varied stages, and when such record is to hand, the case will come before the Cabinet for final decision CHBiSTCHiBCH,This Day. For some little time light cirrus cloudproved an obstacle to the clear defin'tion of the transit of Venus, but during later •tages the atmosphere was perfectly clea . The operations of the English observe s at Burnhum wore highly successful. There wan an outbreak of scarlet fever at South Rakaia, which is spreading very rapidly. The public school has had to be closed iv consequence.