INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 10, 9 July 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PEB UNITED PBBBB ASSOCUTIOX ) _•_,_. GUBOBOTt, Julyß:, A large quantity of wreckage is being washed ashore. It it hardly possible that; it comes from the Northumberland^ at Napier. , v :.■''. Hawbba, Julj # A There is considerable feeling in the country portion of the N?w Plymouth harbor district against the. rate of three* farthings in the pound, for which demands hare just been sent o«t by the Harbor Board. A meeting to consider the whole question is announced to be held on Saturday evening, at ftfanaia. ; ?; MAMAiA.J«IyB. A little girl, four years old. tho daughter of Mr W. Hilhs was drowned ik the Kwpuoi stream last night. ' Wemjhgtok, July 8. • In consequence of the bad weather it has been decided to postpone the Steeplechase,, meeting which was to have been held to-morrow, .. . . „ ' The amount locally subscribed to the Imperial Institute will be sent home by the Governor next mail. The sum is Pukbdik, This Day/ Two men at Anderson's Bay quarry were seriously injured by rehfuring to ascertain why a lar«e blast had not gone off. When they got near the spot an explosion took place. Both were knocked down; and each had j leg broken bonftroflter injuries, f O , S T%%» One of the seamen of fhe Tainai, who was caught bj the Customs officer smug* gling tobacco ashore, was ■ to-day t fine/i £4 19t and lls CQBts> ' ' , Hokttika,; July 8, Blrs Margaret Fif^wicjk, wjLfe.,,o^).^:-; Joseph Fishwick, carpenter,' was 'drowned in a drain this morwng.i The drain runs alongside of an unformed street on the; terrace, and is very deep. Deceased was observed by a boy, who went for assistance, but Wore the body was recovered life was extinct. The body haddiiited a chain flown the drain. : '

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day— I Warnings for southerly Rales and ram I „nd much pqlderwea^h^r -^a^,^ sj#t [ Lu> ail places. ' ■ ...,_;.. ...' r 'W.---vjr.:[./'