INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 78, 4 December 1883, Page 2

I NTERPROVINCI AL.

[PBB VXITXD -fBBSS ASSOCI ATIOH.I N*uo* This Day. On Saturday last a house belonging to George Graham, standing dn the west bank of the Aorere at Colling wood, was, together with its contents, destroyed by fire. Mr Grata m is a heavy loser. It is reported that gold bearing stone has been struck in the drive in the shaft at Johnston's United mine, Collingwood. Two foreign sailors belonging to the barque May Queen left their ship on a frail raft the night after the ship's arrival a week ago, and the raf t wa » found the following morning. This morning the two men were apprehended in Aniseed valley. They had been on the hills since landing, and have been sent to gaol till the ship leaves, : Wbstfobt, This Day. The Kawatiri. when proceeding to sea last night, took the gronnd on the North Spit, a considerable distance inside of the bar. Her position in not dangerous; DvNßDiw, This Day. The New Zealand Refrigerating Company have, added a Hasiam's machine to their works at Burnside, which will enable them to freeze 876 sheep per day, | instead of 260. They will send eleven or I twelve thousand sheep by the Tongariro, aad have arranged for; die despatoh of about 84,000 during 1884. . - The Wakatipu Mail denies the troth of the report about diamonds bring found atEarnslow. . Hmrioat, This Day?' A fire broke out in Broadway street at four this morning, and totally destroyed four buildings. ; : :». , Blbmbbix, This Day. A man named Frank Matthew;!, a resident of Havelock, who was brought up recently on suspicion of heingj of unsound mihd, and discharged, at the doctors differed aa io his case, haa been missing since Wednesday night. It is feared . that hs hai drowned himself 1 in the river;