INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 5, 12 January 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PER PKITKD PBEBB ASSOCIATION.! TiKi.Br, This Day. The weather continues favorable to the crops, which are improving in appearance every day. The only fear is of a scarcity of hands, if the crops ripen too suddenly. Chbistchubch, This Day. The Supreme Court criminal sitting* concluded this evening at 7 o'clock, j. Pritchard, for indecently assaulting his niece of tender years, was sentenced tc four years' penal servitude. - " At Leeston ta-day a long interview took place between Messrs Wakefield and Richardson, the result being that Mi Wakefield contests Selwyn. Dcnebin, This Day. Major Cautly is expected to arrive to-night, and the Governor will go down to the harbor to-morrow to make an inspection in connection with the defences. . His Excellency was on the ground for n short time at the Blueskin show, having been on a visit to the Hon. G. VJcLean in the n- i ;hborhood. : No d-clarations of insolvency were filed this week. ; Weimnoton, This Day. Arrived — The French Barquehtine Louise, from Kole, Japan, after a passage of 66 days. > | , Nothing hrn yet been decided as to the fate of the girl Catherine Boyle. The question of her. disposal Will' be duly considered by Government on a report being received from /the learned Judge who tried the case, but ho far no report has been received from his fldnor. ' A sitting of the Supreme Court in divorce and matrimonial causes jurisdiction is fix d for the 14th inst. The following is the list of cases for hearing : — •.dvrards | v. Edwards and Bemington. rule nisi ; Elwell v. Elwell and Phillips, rule: absolute ; Pizzey v. Pizzey, rule absolute. Patba, This Day. A man named Stephen Wilson' was killed in the ballast pits on the railway line yeiterdi v Tif ternobn by fall of earth.' Ai'ckxand, This Day. £4000 worth of shares in the New Zealand Tobacco Growing and Manufacturing Company hare been subscribed in Auckland. The- company will have 280 tons of leaf in progress of manufacture by April next A man named David Lacy is reported to have died suddenly on the gum-field, some miles from Henderson: Symptoms of poisoning were observed, but there is no suspicion of foul play. An inquest is to be held to-morrow. The' law as to the employment of! barmaids after 11 p.m. is said to be generally and; openly violated in this city. Some girls are kept employed till midnight. • |