INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 79, 6 December 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[NB PHITSD VBBSS ASSOCIATION.! „. Ai'cklahb, This Day The Waitaki at high water today endeavoured to haul the Triomph off, and the was mored astern some ten feet, when further efforts were postponded till to-night. One of the workmen at Whenukiti tramway, at Mercury Baj, name unknown, was killed by a fall of earth. 1H akeb, Thi* Day. Mr Stout lectured to-night on " A true democracy" to a crowded audience. v Bamutoh, This Day. The Waikato Times- this morning states that the long neglected districts of Whalawhata and llaglaa ate at last about to be connected by telephone. Chbistchvbch, This Day. W. J. W. Hamilton, an old settler, I haying come to New Zealand prior to the settlement of Canterbury, died early this morning., after, a verj abort illness. Deceased formerly held sereral Gtorern merit appointments, and was one of the proprietors of the Ltyttelton Tipes. Joseph Fanthnr, a farmer of the Sand hills hear Christchurch, was accidentally drowned yesterday erening in Stewart's Qnllr. All aTailable space at the exhibition is applied for, and 600 square feet in excess, for which accommodation will be pro Tided; . The body found m the Waimakariri has »«*»n identified as that of Mr Bhodts, connected with a Poverty Bay tattler. It has been decided to send a team of cricketers to Auckland ra the 90th December. . Drirsn]r< This Day. The body of a man much decomposed was found laft Friday on an island on the east side of the, Clutha Birer, about COO jatdi nortk of the Pomahaka mouth.