INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 99, 30 January 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PEB UNITES PBBSB ABSOCIATIOK.] Dunedin, January 29. Captain Baldwin, Mr Thomas Dioks and Mr Fish will contest the city seat a the next general flection. Admiral Scott oppose! Mr Boss at Boslyn. Mr Carncross opposes Mr Fulton at Taieri. Mr Green opposes Mr Buckland at Waikouaiti. Wellinstok, January 29. The afternoon train yesterday to Masterton met with an accident at Silverstream, four of the goods waggon* leaving the rails and being considerably damaged. On board the train were several horses engaged at tbe Wairarapa meeting, but the only injury done was to one of the grooms, who hud his foot crushed by a horse tolling on him. The passengers escaped uninjured. Miss Welshman, the typhoid patient, from the ship Hurunui, died at the quarantine station, from phthisis, which she was suffering from when the fever abated. Yesterday afternoon Mr Press, landlord of the Prince of Wales Hotel, went out for a ride to Island Bay, taking his so;-, with him. Hib horse became restive, and Press, put the boy on a dray loaded with shingle*' going te town. In the afternoon the la;i was brought to the hotel insensible and apparently dying. He had been picked up < n the road with a broad murk across his stomach as of a wheel. Mr Press does not know on what drny the lad was put, nor is it known who brought him to the hotel. January 28. The Customs authorities hare been instructed to put into fore* the existing proclamation dealing with the Codlin moth pest. This, however, refers to pears and apples imported into the col* ony from outside. With the internal measurers against the pest, the Customs have nothing to do ; the act of 1884 contains provisions for dealing with the difficulty. The Colonial Secretary has received a number of telegrams alluding to the increase of the moth in the colony. It is said to be particularly active in the ' North. Auckland, January 28. The woman Taylor, whose husband attempted to bolt the other day, visited Dr Knight's residence this morning with a dead baby in her arms to ask him to en* deavour to save it. Ordinary remedies 1 were applied but were of no avail. Mrs Taylor was distracted, subsequently she bought Bough on Eats, swallowed it and now lies in a precarious state. Mastebtov, January 29. Informations have been laid against Joseph Ingley for having on various dates! stolen 669 sheep, the property of C. Dakin,' farmer, laratahi. Chbistchubcb, January 29. In consequence of a misunderstanding between the employers and employes in the boot manufactories, some 300 opera. tives «f all branches of the trade nave withdrawn from work. The grievances of the men are that too many boys are employed, to the detriment of the adult bootmakers, and that seme men were given piece work in overtime, while many others were out of work.