INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 16, 9 February 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

♦ — - [FEB UNITED P81.3 ASSOCIATION.! _uAT£A, This Day. The schooner Falcon grounded in the river last evening. She is expected to float off to-night. I hbistchubch, This Day. ,- The cricket match, Tasmania v anterbury, was continued to-day. The Tasmanians finished their first innings, which closed for 226. Charles Parker was committed for bigamy. The evidence for the prosecution was that accused married Mary Foley in 1875, departed from her in 1876, and married Susan Docherty in 1883. The first wife was seen by the second wife after the seoond marriage. The defence was reserved. Ashbueton, This Day. Harvest prospects are encouraging. Many farmers are cutting throughout the county. The weather ie glorious, and the prospects of an enormous return are daily improving. Wellington, This Day. A little girl named Annie Fitzgerald, aged two years, while playing on the' Johnsonville road, was run over by the coach and killed instantaneously. No blame attaches to the driver. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following telegram, dated London Sth inst. : — Frozen meat— The market for frozen meat is quiet. Mutton, weighing per carcase, 70 to 75 ponnds, is worth 6}d per pound. Auckland, This Day. Mr Swanson has declared his der raination to resign his seat for. Newton after the next session. Mr Peacock, the present member for ity North, and Mr Upton; stationer, have already announced the intention to stand for the •■•'at whenever the vacancy irises.