INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 78, 6 January 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PER UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, January 4. Mr Justice "Wiird lias arranged with thp Grown Prosecutor that the trial of Caffrev and Poun shall take place on the 17th inst. Janunry 5. The annual sale of blood stock yearlings took place this afternoon at Sylvia , Park (the estate of the New Zealand , Stud Company). }Ji*» nttend.-mce embract ing visitors from Victoria, Sydney, Wel- . lington. JNapiec, VVunganui, and Cm ' terbury. Thirty- three yrarlin^s were sold — 3 by Cap- -, i,-3 by Leolmus, one ■ each by Guinea, tVscator, Robinson • Crusoe, and 22 by Musket. The auc* . tioneer stated that the total winnings of I Musket stock to date was £80,<iOO, of p which £18,500 was won last year. The sale realised over £10,000 the highest figure being 1100 guineas for a bay filly by Musket from Sylvia. The purchaser 1 was MrChuruside, of Victoria. Wellington, This Day. At the Supreme Court to-day, Davis was sentenced to one year for stabbing. ' Total Bankruptcies for last year were 66; for the previous year, 72; and in 1884, 39. January 6. At the annual meeting of the Gear Preserving and Freezing Company the ! balance sheet showed a total on the year's operations of £12,545. A dividend and i bonus of 12j percent, has been declared. WeßTPoet, January 5. A child named Lamplough, aged five years, was crushed to death at Addison's, near Westport, by the wheel of a dray passing over him. Chbistchubch, January 3. This morning Arthur T. Pillow, 24 years old, was drowned at New Brighton He went to bathe with his two brothers, brother-in-law, and aMr Toaycliffe. The tide took them out seaward. T»ny cliff e got Arthur in, and left him standing in three feet of water while he went to held the others. A wave lifted deceased off his feet and swept him out, and he watt drowned- The body has not yet been recovered. Dunedin, January 5. A young man named Thomas Newton, aged 22, a painter, was lirowned while bathing in the sea at Ocean Beach. His parents live at Akaroa. He was a splendid swimmer. Dvxmut, This Day. Mrs J. Anderson, of Koslyn. reports her son James as missing. As he was a passenger by the Tekapo he is believed to be the man who fell overboard on Saturday. He was 22 years of age. Napibb, This Day. Tekooti and mob passed through to Wellington to-day.