INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 83, 22 December 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[»BB VJTITOD MESS AMOOUTIOir.] JNapisb, December 31. A serious aoeident to the Taupe coach occurred this afternoon going down la •teep. catting to Mohaka Biver, where the coach eapsised. No farther par-: tieulars art to hand, except that the driver, Griffiths, is reported nearly dead, and several passengers seriously lojnred. Medical assistance has been sent up. i Wixlixotok, Depember SI. Ah Get, a Chinaman, has been oem< mitted fer trial on a ohaigo of attaqpt* ing to defraud his creditors. Bail was allowed. The follomng aooeptanees were received for the "Wellington Cup to be run at the Hutt in Februirj :— Tasman, Administrator, Pearl, Nelson. Armourer, Leon, Hermitage, Fusilade, Grand Duke, Laurel, Salvage, Waitiri, Bayard, Clogs, Libeller, SefriKerator, Waipiti, Tetford, Speculation, Alpine Bose, Tiger Tim. The Poet, Salisbury, and The Marquis. This Daj. At the E.M. Court this morning Frank McDowell, of Bleaheim, was ohargeid that he did, between the dates ef Nerember 5 and . December 17, steal, take awaj, or convert to his own usey certain goods to which a let of drapery, and olothiag valued at £676, the property of Jas. McDowell of Wellington. The aeoused was remanded till Januarj IS. DvvßPijr, December 91. ; A young jaaa named William Carter, brother ofa member of a drapery' firm in Dunedin, was .drowned near Lawrence yesterday while bathing. The Premier to-day agreed that arequest of the members of the Charitable Board for free passe* en railways was reasonable, and he had wired reeemmending that they be granted. • AvcxLAjTs, Deoember 19. A dispute is pending in the brildingtrade owing to a large contractor intimating that he will in future only pay 9s instead of 10s per day. ■ IHTiBCABotu, This Day. A •erious fire oeenrrod at Luasden thii merning, destroying several shops and the Colonial Bank. . Insuraneet -jLSSSf.