INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 28, 9 August 1883, Page 2

IN TERPROVINCIAL.

.#- [PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, This Day. Captain Gilford, the well - known mariner, of Dunedia, who was injured while stepping off a tram car on Sunday, . died from his injuries at the hospital yesterday afternoon. An inquest will be held. The council of the New Zealand Rifle Association propose to hold their next [ meeting at Auckland. At the sitting of the Supreme Court in : banco to-day Mr Justice Richmond granted a new trial in the case of Hunt v. Gordon. Auckland. This Day. Mrs Marion Scott, a widow aged 65, who was frightened the other day by the monkey which savagely assaulted an infant, and who has been ailing ever since, died suddenly this morning. An inquest is to be held. Cheistchuech, This Day. The excitement re diamonds has cons- ' siderably abated. Shares in prospecting companies are not much in demand. No further information as to value has not . yet been received. ' Haweea, This Day. At the sale of the forfeited deferred payment sections to-day all but one were sold. One 21-aere section, near Okaiawa, fetchen £12 5s per acre ; one 5-acre section, Manaia suburbs, £29 10s per. acre. Thames, This Day. The new Prince Imperial Company obtained 9cwt of rich specimens on Monday, and 6cwt additional to-day, . from the No. 2 lode, an excellent show , remaining for future operations.