INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 76, 9 December 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

♦ [per united press association. Auckland, This Day. The Rey. Abraham Ridings was taken yesterday in charge of 1 'etective Twohey to Kaipara, to answor a charge of indecent assault on a boy, before the local bench at Pahi, to which place he was remanded. Mr Theo. Cooper, junior, of the firm of Devore and Cooper, has been retained for the defence. Christchurch, This Day. A house and shop occupied by Bonnington, a grocer, at St Vlbans was destroyed by firo last night. Insurance, £9(K) in the Colonial; estimated lo»s, £1 700. The origin of the fire is unknown. At their meeting last night the City Council decided to take steps to raise a loan uf £25,000 for 50 years at 5 per cent., for rebuilding bridges, erecting gas lamps, channelling, ' fire prevention, and tramway to the new cemetery. Wellington, This Day. Henry Lewis, alias the Hangman, was yesterday charged with unlawfully proposing to eommit murder. Mr William Spinka, a very old resident here, died rather sudienlr yesterday afternoon, at the age of 82. Hearn, the sculler, left for Riverton, yesterday afternoon, where he contests the match for the championship. There is hut little betting here on the event. It is rumoured here that Mr Thomas Bracken and Mr P Galvin are about to start a weekly paper in Wellington something alter the style of the defunct Saturday Advertiser. The first candidate (Mr G. S. Graham) for the Government Insurance Board was nominated yesterday. Gisbobnb. This Day. The Supreme Court sittings opened yesterday. Tricker alias Marshall, sot two years for bigamy. Wanganui, This Day. An A.B. of the St. Kilda, named Martin, was killed to»day on the cattle wharf. He was stepping off tho steamer when his foot slipped and he fell and broke his nock. The Hon. J. Ballance left for Wellington this afternoon. Tne Magistrate delivered judgment this morning in the petition Joseph| Kilgour and others against the election for Poroa Riding and for which A. R. Guiness was returned. The election was deolared null and void;