INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 63, 24 January 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

, r> — — [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION'. J Pate a, Tliis Day. Harvesting is now general throughout the district' ;iiul reports arc coming in from all quarters of the splendid condition of grain crops. Them is a considerably larger area in grain this year than last, and the yield is expected to be heavy. The long continued drought, althougu favorable to the above, is seriously affecting the stockbreeders ; feed having become so scarce that in some instances cattle are being fqd on hay intended foi winter use. There is no apj.e trance of » change in the weatl.ei, and the to ft" n residents are experiencing scarcity of ■ water. Auckland, Tins Day. The Priestly and Hamilton alleged murder case was, last night, adjourned : till to-day. The case will probably be finished late to-night. Wkllixgton, This Dxy. 1 Mr Brycc proceeds to JSew Plymoutl: ' overland on Wednesday next. Mr Rol- : leston will probably accompany him, A narrow escape from fire occurred on board the Tui early this morn ng. Several h:inds went to their berths shortly after midnight and were awakened by a ■ sensation of stifling. After a short search it was ascertained that some cotton waste and paint were alight but were extinguished before any damage was clone. Some scoundrel entered Sir James Prendergast's stable last night and deliberately cut the tongue out of his fa--1 vori c pony. Thcrj is no clue to the perpetrator A robbery toot place at the Prince of Wales Hotel, on Mondiy night. The lmdlord, with his wife, lift the house for a few minutes, to witness the torchlight prosession, leaving the barman in charge. Later in the evening it was ascertained that £110 in notes aud silver had been extracted from a drawer in the landlord's bedroom. It has been definitely ascertained that Mr Charles White, the absconding secretary of the Wellington Building Society, did proceed by the mail steamer to San Francisco. He landed at Honolulu, and spent the day in company with J. S. Webb, a similar defaulter fromDunidin In San Francisco he resided a few days at Baldwin's Hotel, after which he was lost sight of. Christcuubch, January 23. A stormy meeting is expected to-night, at Kaipoi, re the deficit in the Borough accounts. Later. At a public meeting of the ratepayers of Kaiapoi last night it was resolved to employ a thoroughly competent accountant to investigate the Council's accounts since the date of last Government audit. Have lock, This D.iy. Malier, who was injured by a fall of earth at Mountain Camp Creek, died at 11 o'clock last night. W. Davis, who was injured yesterday by falling through a bridge, died this moniing. Dunedix, This Day. Mr Larnach, M.HR-, was thrown out of a buggy while returning home last night. He was seriously injured.