IINTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 77, 10 June 1884, Page 2

lINTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[Ml UKITID FBBN ASSOCIATION.! Gisbobhk, This Day. At the nonination to-day the show of hands was as follows ; Mr Bees, 68 ; Mr Locke, 38; Mr Gannon, 16. Mr Rees was the only 'candidate present. He made a long speech, stating that th c Government party were doing all they could to keep him out of the House. Wellington. This Day. Messrs Buckley, Stafford and Pitaherbert, have been retained for the' defence in the Grey marriage suit. All the material allegations are denied. The Government nave received inform, ation that it is probable the AnTerioan congress will grant a subsidy for ;tbe continuatian of the San Francisco mail service. . . • ' There' is but little change in the Premier's health. A steeplechase meeting to be held at Island Bay, under the auspices of the recently formed Wellington Jockey 'Jiub, has been fixed for July 12th and about £300 will be given in stakes, the principal event being worth 125 sots. By the steamer Victory, which sailed for London this morning, 220 frozen rabbits, were shipped, t • „, Jnthe Divorce Court a petition has been .filed in the; case of Craig v Craig. The. petitioner, who is a gardener residing in the Hutt: district, seeks a dissolution of marriage on the grounds of his wife's adultery. Auckland, This Day. The Auokland Rugby Union telegraphed to Sydney inviting the representative, team to return this way and play a match against Auckland. The young man, Terry, supposed to have been devoured at Wairoa South by wild pigs, has been found on the rond in an unconscious condition. It is believed that be was thrown from his horse. JLuhabu, This Day. Charles Kles, who used to keep an hotel at the mouth of the Teremakau Hirer, iras suffocated in his claim/