INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 81, 11 December 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[pee united fbess association. l Chbistchubch, This Day. For conspiring to create a riot und disturing the Salvation Army, at Lyttelton, on Sunday, two young men were fined L 5 or six weeks. Two were fined L 3, or one month, a.nd seven were fined Ll, or fourteen days. Yesterday afternoon applications were lodged at the Waste Lands office for n goldmintng lease, for 15 years, of J65 acres on the east side of the dividing range, at the head- waters of the Wilberforce river. The Company is to be styled the Christchurch Quartz Mining Company. It is stated that JNorlh Cieek Mining Company are to have a trial crushing of half a ton of qunrtz brought from Wilberforce. Bulls, This Day. By an error in transmission of weights of the Marton Rangitikei Jockey Club's Handicap, Hinemoa, Sweet Home, and Lam el should not have appeared m the M. B. Handicap For the same race, Dusk fst s lbs, and Consul 6stl2lbs, were omitted, and the weights of the horses published as 6st 71bs and under should have been 6st 71bs in the district. Dusk 7st 121 bs was omitted. Westpobt, This Day. A man named Joseph Stewart was found yesterday in an unoccupied building with his throat cut, and quite dead. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind, from the effects of drink. The deceased was a well-known old West Coast miner.