INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 10 August 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(Hiß UlfiTBD PBBBB ASSOOIATieir.) . Avcklakd. August 9i Charles Anderson fell overboard off the cutter Mayflower in a gale off^Eiritin. . The iron broke off short while he was steering. Walter F. Hutchison, a bushman, was killed by a falling tree at Mongenui. Wellington, Augusts

A rumour is current here that Shaw, Savilie and Co. and the -New Zealand Shipping Co. have completed arranger ments by which Wellington is to be the first port of call for their steamers direct from England; also, that vessels of the two companies -will make a trip to the northern and southern ports alternately, It has been raining lor the past 48 hours, bat there are now signs of it clear* ing up.

This Day. The conriotion against the Hon. J. C« Fharazyn for hiring roted at the- last, general eleotfon for the member for Fox« ton haying been quashed, he has pro-, sented the amount of the fine (£100) to the Old Men's Home. The weather is still wet. It has rained on every day this month, excepting one day, the sixth. Palmebston, This Day. The Borough Council last evening received 23 applications for combined offices ef Bate Collector, Dog Kegistrar, Ac, at a salary of £125 per annum, J. C liowbray securing the appointment. Duicbdik, August 9. At' the Dog Shew, Mr Twopenny's dog, Belvior Tom, won the 21gs onp. There has been a continual downpour of rain for neatly 48 hours. The Time* says that the. working on Kitohoner's land near Hampden is taming oat much better than anticipated. The geld is rough and waterworii, 'and aeems to be scattered over many hundred, acres, but water is scarce. ' i • ThisDay. A shop and dwelling at Careniham was burned down this morning. ..Insurance — Stock, £160 in JSew Zealand; furniture, £250 in Colonial. A six-roomed house in Anderson's Bay was burned down this morning. Iho building was insured in the EquitaUe for £120, the furniture in the same office for £110. 1 Blvfp, August 9. ; The s.s. Pelham. from Grey mouth with" a full cargo of coals, ran ashore at the Pilot Station, Bluff, at 7 a.m. this morning. She now lies with her hull to the sea, ami a heavy swell is ronniag pait. The value of the steamer is said to have been LI O,OOO, and that the insurances amount to L 4545. Napikb, This Day. F. Hill, counter clerk at the Post office, and son of Hill, the tdtalisator propriotpr, was remanded at tho K.M. Court to-day till the 18th instant; on a charge of larceuj of posted letters containing money. A test letter, containing half a sovereign, was found 1a his posstssioa.