INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 114, 12 March 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

LPKB tUTITKD PERM ASSOCIATION. Wellington This Day. The Auckland match was won by Okey of New Plymouth. Lucas, of Thames, is leading for the Eifle Championship, and Boss, of Napier, and Watson, of Port Chalmers, are leading for the Carbine. Dukkdih , This Day. Timothy Creed, a carter, was killed in Jetty street this moraing, through his horse bolting, and oausing him to fall off. The wheel of the dray passed over his neck. About a dozen charges of sly-gro/ selling are to come before the Police Court on Tuesday against shanty keepers at Ntnthorn, on the Otago Central Bailway Line. The criminal statistics for 1884 show a decrease of 218 in the number of cases, for drunkenness. Auckland, This Day. An amusing dispute has arisen amongst the Kingites as to who shall have the honour of turning the first sod on the railway. Wahanui was the first selected but the owners of land: where the railway commences hare concluded that it will; infringe their xnana, and object, and! assert that one of their number shall turn the sod. Invbbcabgill; This Day. At the Besident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday morning Alex. McLachlan> farmer, was fined £20 for neglecting to comply with an order from the Babbit Inspector requiring him to adopt means for the abatement of the rabbit nuisance on his property. At 2.45 this morning a large twostoried boarding house, owned by D. C. XJrquhant, was found to be on fire. The inmates escaped. They were Mrs Morison and 5 children and a man servant, named Sparrow, who had to leap from the upper window. Four adjacent build' ings were also destroyed. Blenheim,; This Day. Young's body was recovered yesterday afternoon in a 22 feet hole in the Pelerus Hirer. She inquest was held last night, and a verdict of accidentally drowned returned . ' : Chbistchubcii, This Day. George Hutchinxon, the youth; who disturbed the Salvation Army meeting last night, was fined £5 bj Mr Beetham. R.M. - / , , ■ . '■