INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 44, 15 September 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

. [m ONITBD PKBSB AF3OCUTIOK.I , Chbistchitbch. This Day. A Prospecting Association, with a 5 capital of £2,000. was former! last night, r to thoroughly prospect the Malvern dis- > trict where some excellent samples of gold - hare been found. DcßEDisr, This Day. I A lad named Mcßae was drowned in the rirer at Kelso last night. His elder ' brother jumped in after him, and was > rescued with difficultly. i The retail price of mutton has ad« ranced to sd. The Now Zealand Refrigerating company carried a resolution to-day to increase the capital of the company by the issue of 4000 shares at £5 mush. The company contemplate an extension of the [ present works near Dunedin, and erecting a branch establishment at Oamara. r Hokjtika, This Dar. i At a meeting of the West land Racing Club this evening it was renolred to ! issue a programme for a Christmas . meeting of two days with about £4' oo of added money. Patka, This Day. At the K.M. Court yesterday the bailiff charged three natives with obstructing him from >euui« horses and buggies at [ Pakaraka, south of Waitotara. It wait ' shown in evidence that Pakaraka was outside the bailiffs district. Theilagis- ' trate dismissed the case. Two youths named Gowland were fined ' fire pounds eaen* for illegally resoning > cattle from the pound. Nxw PtTMOciK, This Day. There was considerable excitement 1 ; yesterday over the borough election, the Jockey CJub r. the Blue .Ribbon Army being the most active amongst the voters. The former put their men in — Mr Berry beating Captain Davidson bj 23 votes, and Mr Callaghan beating Mr Ward by < 18. !