INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 6, 15 January 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

♦ [PEB UWITBD FBEBB ASSOCIATION.! Wellington. This Day. At the Snpreme Court this morning the charge of arson against Mullen was commenced. The case for the Crown has not jet been concluded, and at six o'clock the jury were locked up for the night. A man named Denis Ryan is missing. He was only discharped from the Lunatic Asylum recently, and it is feared he may have destroyed himself. The ship Uurunui sailed for London thiserening. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Carterton, the charge of rape preferred j against a young man named F. Williams was dismissed. The medical examination proved that the crime had not been committed. The steamer Koranui, with 160 tons ! marble from Caswell Sound, arrived this ' afternoon. Libeller and Musketeer are scratched tor all engagements at the Wellington meeting. Chbistchtjbch, This Day. Lewis Stewart, a fisherman of Akaroa. is missing. He is supposed to bare been drowned by the upsetting os his boat. Auckland. This Day. The Herald says :— We regret to learn that Mr W. H. Vereker Bindon, the recently appointed Inspector of Schools for the Wanganui School District, is confined to hu bed seriously ill. Heliaby's slaughterhouse has been burned down. It was insured in the JN'e* Zealand for £300. The dead meat and hides destroyed and also 40 lire sheep were of the value of £4000, and were uninsured. While Mrs Sharp, of Cambridge, was bathing in the Pokawhenua Creek with her deughter, aged four years, the latter was swept away and drowned. Epsom House Seminary, occupied by General Stoddart, was burned down. The building was insured. The origin of the fire is unknown. Timabtt, This Day. A man named Samuel Eirkpatrick was arrested on Sunday on a charge of burglary at Wai toko. It is alleged that he broke into a house and stole a considerable sum of money.

{ Just beiore 12 o'clock to-day the heavy gale that was blowing appeared to hare concentrated its force for the moment at the corner of Manchester and Fergusson streets. The cloud of dust that arose was positively impenatrable to sight, anil it was impossible to walk against the wind. J lie fruit waggon of M>* Symond*, to which two horses were attached, wan standing outside the Denbigh Hotel, with , its back to the wind, against which the ■ aniuals had no power, and they and Ihe vehicle were irreristably moved onwards till they reached Eyre street, where ths -i horses instinctively came to a stand at i Mr i'riee's house, which was their usual , uexfc stopping place. Fortunately they made a xuffici ntly long curve in taming J to prevent what must, otherwise have ,- beea a, smash. - : ; ' '"•.'■.. j