INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 63, 6 November 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(VBR UNITED PRESS ABBOCIATIQN.) Chbistchubch, November 4. Jubal Fleming was to-day fined £100 on three charges of " Breaches of the Gaming and Lotteries Act" in connection with oii .Robin Hood consultation, Noi--80, o* the Melbourne aud New Zealand Cups. Wellington, November 4. In the Divorce Court to-day, Justice Johnston granted a. decree absolute io Winthrop v. Winthrop, and -a decrw nisi, on the petition of the husband in Walker r. Walker and Shelton. The co-respondent in the latter case had lived with the respondent in Auckland until recently. This Day. Commencing with the despatch of next month's 'Frisco mail the contract ■teamen will leare A uckland a day earlier than now —on Monday imtoad of Tuesday. Correspondingly ma. ls will also close a day «<*oner than at preaent dates at all other places. The change will enable homeward mulls to be for* warded from .New York by th« B»turdar fast boats for Queens to wu, and will bi> delivered in London three or four days earlier than is now the easo. Auckland, November 5. At a meeting of delegates to the Bugby Union a letter from the Wel» iington Union, declining to accept tlu> bonus of £20 aud farther declining to offer an apalogy was read. The feeling of the meeting was that by returning the L2O, the Wellington Union had grossly insulted the Auckland Union. The matter was referred to the committee to forward a reply.