INTERPROVINCIL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 85, 20 December 1883, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIL.

[PBB UNITED PBEB9 ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, This Day. Robert Foresham, a drunkard, was found dead in the police cell yesterday morning. Dr Hooper believes the cause to be apoplexy. Palmebston Nobth. This Day. A Druid's. Jodge was successfully opened here last night by W. JL Bishop, P.D.P., of Wellington. The new lodge is named the Oroua, and over thirty candidates were initialed last'night. Wellington, This day. Upwards of LIO,OOO property tax was paid to-day.. Remittances not bearing the postmark of 15th instant will be charged with the ten per cent, -penalty, and immediate' summonses will be issued for all arrears. . ..CBBi9(|t^lK^i.3!bis Itey v^. .... While the. Rev. E. E.Chambers was riding through Rakaia to-day his horse got entangled in a leather rope and fell. The rev gentleman sustained , a severe shock to his system and injured bis spine. .......... Harry Chompson, the jockey, bad bit collar bone broken and bis head injured. The bone has been set and he is doing well. The unemployed held a meeting this .morning, and resolved to adhere to their refusal to accept 4s 6d per day. Ashbubtpn,; This Day. . The crops are looking very .promising throughout the district, although they are late. : ■■'■:. . ■■>.'.■< : Dunbdik, This Day. Various telegrams concerning the earthquake felt on Tuesday show that it was noticed throughout the .- interior of Otago, where it was very severe. •.•■ Napier, Tbis Day. •■..-., News .has befen .reeejve'jl .of the. destruction by fire of Findlayson's aocommo- ( dat inn house at Moe.-enpaenga. The fire occurred through the accidental upsetting of a kerosene lamp.. I nsurance— £lso on house,; and £ 1 00 on 'furdituireTn } tlie National. '".'■' '" ''; ■ -■ ■-■■■■■■■■■•■■-.