INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 26, 14 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

PEB UNITED PBEBS ABSOCATIOX. Wellington, This Day. The captain of the Salvation Army has had his watch stolen while conducting the proceedings at a meeting. He placed hin watch on the^ble so as to check the time, and subsequently looking for it found it gone. '-' [ ■••■■<> ; ' Mr J. G. Holdsworth, who for a number of years has held the' position of; Coinrnissiouer of Crown Lands, is suffer? ing from : a se-vere stroke ;of paralysis, and his condition is doomed very precarious. .. - CHBiSTCHTTfICH, This Day. Jn May last a labourer, named Fosterpurchased from.iMcDavitt, licensee of thej CarHon Hotel, a pint of beer which the; latter delivered ia'bottle> previously usedj for oxalic, tffcid. The bejjfJs. acted as a| poison anfd Foster Jijas very^.ill. To-dayj he brought an action against the publican! and gained a verdict for E23,' with costs L 8 7»i ■ ; '. . .'■ Mr Murphy, secretary to the Agricultural and Pastoral Assofiatibn/has left' for Hokianga with Mr Federli to report! or a block of land' for a fruit-growing settlement. • •. . ! TbejNew Zealand Shipping Company are in receipt of^-cablegram dated Lon-! don, Aaguist 11, stating that the British ; Queen had arrived at Rio all well ; her refrigerator' .had , worked satisfactorily, i and the meat, is iv prime condition. In the i Lyttelton Harbour, near the Harbour Board's boat shed, the body of Kichard King, a seaman,employed on the ' "Gipsy," trading to the bays, was found l to-day. King, who was addicted to drink, i was missed about a month ag*o. - Dunedin/ This* Day. Mr Thomas Blacken has been presented with, a r purss of sovereigns, yalue . L 175 He has also received a handsome locket from the Oddfellow*. . • ■ " ■ "