INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 105, 17 May 1883, Page 2

IN TERPROVINCIAL.

[per UNITED PBESS association.] Auckland. This Day. The Westmeath arrived last night from Hobart, for Auckland and southern ports. She called at St. Vincent on the passsge out. The voyage was a tolerably boisterous one. Two deaths occurred on the voyage. She brings 285 immigrants. £3,500 has already been collected for the Babtist tabernacle and site. John Gibbon, while fastening the stoamer Lily to the river bead wharf yesterday, had his foot torn off at the ankle. The Hinemoa, with the Governor, has returned from her cruise ELawau was visited, and Sir G. . . rey entertained His Excellency. Blenheim, This Day. The steamer Lyttelton, laden with flour, for Wellington, struck at the junction of the Wairau and Opawa i'ivers, last night. On reaching the flats she was found to be making water rapidly. Two thirds of the cargo is damaged by water. Tbe cargo is consigned to Turnbull and Co., Wellington. New Plymouth, This Day. The steamer Oreti, which went ashore at the mouth of the Waitara l.iver, on Tuesday morning, is not oft yet. She is not expected to float until next spring tide. The body of a man drowned in the Waitara Eiver has been found. Dunedin, This Day. At the Kensington railway crossing last evening, about a mite out of the city, a buggy was run into by the train. A lad named Owens was in it, and was badly injured. The hors : had to he killed. Two or three somewhat similar accidents have occurred previously. Mr James Kutherford, M.H.E.. for Bruce, died to-day. He was in good health a week ago, but caught cold, which brought on congestion of the lungs. Greymouth, This Day. Mr Wakefield was accorded a hearty reception on his arrival here last night. Hope was expressed by his supporters that they might have another opportunity to work for him, and get him elected for the county. A Mrs Hughes, at Paroa, was fined £25 for selling three nob biers of brandy without a license. Bain is much needed, ami the bar is getting low. Wellington, This Day. The Court of Appeal opened this morning, but in consequence of two of the Judges not having arrived, was adjourned until Monday.