INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 35, 25 August 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[_*■__ UNITED PHBSS ASSOCIATION.! ChBISTCHUBCK, August 24. The Standard 'Insurance Company today paid the amount of the verdict gained by Stranaghan. At a meeting of the unemployed today nearly a hundred carpenters are said to have been present. Another meeting is to be field to-morrow. Auckland, This Pay. The police proceeded to-day against the landlords of the Scotia and Globe Hotels for selling liquor adulterated with water. The evidence showed that the rum was half water.' A number of technical objections were taken, and the Bench reserved its decision. Dunedin, This Day. Some time ago Mr Alfred Austin, of Dunedin announced that he . would give £100 to any man in Australia who would beat young Scott, in a walking match, of 24 hours or 48 hours. A Mr. Seymour, of Melbourne, is how on his way over,to accept the challenge on behalf of the well-known pedestrain Edwards. At a meeting of the unemployed in the Queen's Theatre today 200 men were present. The speakers declared that the iv ages offered on the Otago Central line, of 21s for single and 28s for a married men, were inadequate. Eventually it ws.9 decided to telegraph to the Dunedin and suburban members of the House. • Dunedin, This Day. The Caversham six per cent municipal loan of £20,000 was floated in London at par. •''■'■■ A six-roomed house in Leith Valley was burned down last night. Haweba,*Tlus Day. A Maori at a village near here hanged himself through jealousy yesterday. The other nativs rolled him up in blankets and buried him. The Mayor has proclaimed a public, holiday on Tuesday next in honor of the* railway opening. A luneheon takes place at Patea at noon. (fbom oub.own cobbespondent.) Bulls, This Day. Mr W. Taylor, draper's assistant, and late of Fei ding, wheii returning from the panorama last night,' slipped off the footpath, and broke his leg.