INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 80, 4 February 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PBB ONITED PBFBB ASSOCIATION ) ' Invbbcaboili« February 2. P. F. Slavm, the celebrated A nstrnlian boxer was a passenger for Wellington by the Te Anau, which arrived at the Bluff on. Monday* and left :for the, North the same day. It is believed that! he is the man whom Mr Bileyrof Wellington wishes to back .against Laing the 1 New Zealand champion. It is extensively rumpured here that the man Mr J. Kiley, of -the Post Oj£ce Hotel, wants to back afainst H." Laing is Slavin, the Australian/ wito. according to. the .Australian Star, left Melbourne on the 26th, and ought to be in the Colony now. : ! . January S: ; Great interest has been displaje^ here, as to thi SlaTin»Lpi«is '_ match, which sporting men hope to see take place in accorda'c* with the conditions^ of the" champion beli Laing being" at present in Palmerstoii in connection with a charge in the Police Court, no information i* available as to his intentions. . , Auckland, Pebuary 3. The Marippsa arn red flying the yellow flag, having one case of smtll-pox on board. I lie disease appeared' the day after leaTihsr Honolulu. The pattlent is a passenger San Francisco, and is isolated. There have been no fresh cases. The steamer is qnarantined and the mails delayed for f umisati«n.They are now being fumigated. .-. •. - Bi>nhbim. Febuary 2. : Reports fr*m the Wakamarina gold* ffeld state that) the Maori 'jEr..>rge( jClainT has been successfully pumped dry, and - during the last 24 lipnrs two pounds weight has been obtained therefrom. The shareholdera are' naturally jetf"' jubilant ever the 1 discovery, which has ; !{iTpn a great impetus to the floating of Che Wakiituarinu: Gorge Company, to.dp--i-rute in the, nrfiose operstioni !*>" tfiJiy'ftri Wtofftiifett^ on • oiuch act* qxtonaea wile.