INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 27, 16 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

«, PEB UNITED PBESS ABBOCATION. Dcnedin, This Day. Tn .the case Bank of Australasia v Walter Gruthrie, a claim for £4100 on a guarantee, the jury, after fiva hours retirement, returned a unanimous verdict for defendant. At the Police Court yesterday, James O'Flaherty,' against whom there were three previous convictions for larceny and over fifty for drunkenness, was commilted for trial for stealing a Masonic iewel, valued at L 25, at Outram. He was also committed for trial for trying to commit suicide by cutting his throat in the lockap. Chbistchubch, This, Day. The lumpers strike at Lyttelton has been settled. Mr Stout arrived by special train at Lyttelton at 2.40 p.m. yesterday, and left by the steam tug Lyttelton, engaged specially from the Harbour Board at L 2 per hour. A man was convicted of illegal, fishing in the Selwyn River, and had to "pay in i all about L 3. Wellington, This Day.' ThVhealth officers yesterday inspected) the Te Anau before she came alongside the wharf, and also the barque Sophia Luhrs, from Newcastle. In both cases everybody on board was found to be in good health. ' Reports' hiving Been published that the doctor in charge of the " quarantine station at Napier had been negligent in his duties to the small-pox patient, Mouatt, the Colonial Secretary wired to the Mayor. of papier, and the following reply was received :— " Have had a daily written report, from the doctor at the quarantine station-, and he has been seen every day by orderliesj who also visited at uncertain hours both night and. day L can positively contradict the rumour." • Blenheim, This Day. The .Wairan Hunt Club, recently established hero with an extensive list of members, has determined to establish a pack of be;ig!es, and eight dogs are already promised as presents.