INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 23, 7 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

per united press assocation. Dunedin, This Day. In Lawson v the Queen, in which the plaintiff, a saw-miller, recovered £1,600 damages from a special jury against tLe Government for the destruction of his saw- mills by sparks alleged to have been emitted by a railway engine, Judge Williams granted a new trial. Wellington. This Day. This Government a day or two back issued instructions for their schooner Kekeno to search in the neighbourhood of Preservation Inlet for any traces of the. schooner Marie Ange or her crew. It also has been decided to send either the Stella or Hinemoa from here tomorrow to assist in the search. With reference to Welcome Jack and Eskatos, the New Zealand horses which are still left in the Melbourne Cup, it is quite uncertain at present whether they will go or not. The Hon. Mr Robinson, who returned for. Sydney by the Hauroto, was a passenger for the South to-day, and he ' states that telegrams which he is expecting might determine his plans at any moment. Mr David Kinniburgh, a very old resident, died yesterday: At the Magistrate's Court to-day H: Lewis was, charged with a breach of the Prison Act in having secreted a number of articles with a view of handing them to He had been convicted of forgery but had had a portion of bis sentence commuted on account of his having accepted the office of common 'hang— an 1 .-for.- the colony, in which, capacity lie' 'has executed six convicts, his last victim being at Napier. He was sehtencep to one month's hard labor. Auckland, This Day. A young man named Barlow has been killed at Pi rd grove. He would have succeeded to L 13,000 worth, of property in' Manchester on attaining his majority. The plant for the Onehungs iron works arrived by tbe lonic. .The quaratined .passengers of the Waihora complain bitterly pf. the accommodation at the quarantine station. The Hawera is still aground.