INTERPROVINCIAL

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 57, 3 January 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] Wellington, This Day. The Custom returns for the colony for last monlh were £113,395 ; beer duty, £7,073. For the corresponding period in 1881, the Customs returns amounted to £12H,882; beer duty, £6,598. For the nine months. April to December inclusive, the Customs duties amounted to £1,119,282 ; bier duty, £45,485. Upwards of 100:) applications have been made by Leal bodies under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act. A large number of these, however, are incomplete. At the inquest on the body of the lad Ready, kille>l on h.istmas Day, the verdict was that deceased's neck was dislocated either by :h- fall or through deceased coming into contact with the truck. The Acting-Governor arid Sir Julius Vogel left in the Te Anau for Lyttelton to attend the opening of the docks. The Cu-itom duties collected nt Wellington for the month ended Saturday last amounted to £14,053 18s lOd. The vitil statistics for the Wellington district during the past year are, roundly, as follows:— Births, 1200; deaths, 430; marriages, 278. Lyttelton, This Day. The Graving Doek was opened to-day. The day was observed as a holiday. Large crowds witnessed the eeremony. CnmsTCiiVEcn, This Day. The body of the man Taylor, vwho was drowned at Summer, was found on the j New Brighton Beach on Sunday almost ' unrecognisable. The body of the man k ; lled on the j railway yesterday was identified this morning by his wife and daughter as that of James Thompson, a farmer of St. Albans. It is stated that Thompson had sold his property and made arrangements , to proceed to Invercargill to-day. Dttnedin, This Day. A lad named Boag, aged twelve years, was drowned in the Shag Kiver while bathing. Mr JolanGlendinning, of Kirkpatrick and G'lendißning, while out shooting at Waikouaiti y. sterday, met with a serious accident. His gun burst-, inflicting injury and rendering amputation of the left arm necessary. The Caledonian games today were again attended by several thousands of people. Tire principal attraction was. the border wrestling, which Strong, the present champion, won after an interesting contest with liobertson, the Maori.