INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 22, 5 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

PEB UNITED PBBBB ABBOCATIOW. ' Avcklanp, This Day. Captain Dddie, of the Waihora, was greatly astonished on arrival here to find that Andrew _ Mouatt, Lamptrimmer, landed at Napier, ■ was . suffering from smallpox. Neither the captain nor passengers suspec ed his illness to be of that character. The Waihora is lying off the quarantine hulk awaiting the decision of the Wellington authorities, i ' At a meeting of the Auckland Racing Club the accounts showed a credit balance of £1200, I I During a dense fog this morning a mishap occurred to the steamer Hawea, which vessel left the Manukau wharf al eight o'clock, and when she proceeded a mile a half down -the harbour ran aground on a sand bank and remained fast, all attempts to back . her proving futile. When the fog cleared the vessel wa,B discovered to be a considerable distance out of her course. The vessel is perfectly safe and unin j ured, ; and will probably be kedged off to-night, and will sail to-morrow. Wellington, This Day. ! W. Poppens, recently a publican here, and who, it is believed, has levanted to, Sydney, was to-day, on the application of Mr Cheymol, wine merchant, adjudicated a bankrupt. - : A Telegram from /London, dated 2nd instant, states that the Aoraagi has left! Plymouth for Wellington. ; „ j Anie Anderson, a Scandinavian girl, has been committed far trial on a charge of infantiide at Taueru, near Masterton, oh July 9th. . '■ Tt is understood that the Hon Mr Dick tendered his* resignation, this morning.-' ■■' '•■ ">> :> ■■' ■ '-■■ ■''- '■ . ■'- ! | A woman named Cecilia fl;ogan t cook '< M\he Wellmßton Hotel, was fofancl dead j! in he> bedroom' this aiorbihg, sh« was !: fully dressed and an empty gin bottle was ■ beside-.her. She, was addicted to; intemperance. * ; Chbistchtthch, This Day. ' Jh'cbb Stokes, a m<m civer '70 years -of age, iras found dead in his bed in a boardinghonse -on Saturday. Deceased ■ had been a station cook, and was sup-; posed to.be. very :poor, :bnt among his> effects were discovered papers showing that he: -bad about £700 in the savings, bank. ' He is supposed to have relations ) in the North./ *'...;;'' i ;?'■■. \