INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 75, 28 December 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, December 24. On Mr Chapman's application the trial of Hall is fixed povisionally tor 24th January. It is stated that a special jury will probably be applied for. A poundkeeper was fined 5s and cost« for charging for feed for horses which he had not giveu theni. It appeared from the evidence that he had fed the horses before 6 a.m., whereas the Act provides they shall be fed between six and nine. This Day. Thomas Marton, aged 23 years, a compositor, was killed on the Port railway last night. He fell off the platform of a carriage, and had both his legs cut off . N Gisrobnb, December 26. A young man named James Wyllie was found on Christmas morning baagto a tree iv oue of the suburbs of the town. Napier, This Day. The adjusters of the late fire report the following net losses of the several companies : — South British, L 2950 ; Union. L 2700; Colonial, L 265 0; Victoria, L 2050; New Zealand LlBlO, National, LllOO ; Standard, L 76 0; Nothern, L 61 0; Norwich, L 55 0; United L 550; London and Lancashire, L 40 0; Liverpool, London and Globe, L'_lo; Australian Alliance, L 170; Equitable, L 100; total, L 16.610. Wellington, This Day. Wellington all disposed of in the second innings for 34. Canterbury won by 112 runs. Dunlop secured 6 wickets for 7 runs. The Manawatu train, which left Palmerston at 6 o'clock last night, ran into a couple of cows, the result being the death of one, and a carriage was jerked off the rails, A delay of two hours and a half was occasioned, the excursionists not arriving untiljafter 1 this morning. .