INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 77, 19 December 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PllttSS ASSOCIATION.) Westpoet, December 17.; Eight members of the Salvation Army: were to-day convicted of obstructing traffic and fined Is each and costs. They went to gaol. . . . ■ ■ Auckland, December 17. A fish weighing 161 b was found in the Waikato River to-day. It is supposed to be a salmon. At the Supreme Court to-day Kobert McCracken, for cattle stealing, was sentenced to two .years' imprisonment. Dunkdin, December 17The town is crowded to-day with visitors from Australia, and they 6tate that the uext week's boat will be full of passengers. Mr George Darrell and his theatrical company will continue their journey on to Wellington to-morrow. C'HRisTCHttKCH, December 17The condition of the barque Beltana remains nearly the same, but it is sup posqd the fire is being gradually extinguished. The temperature ainidship was decreased from 100 yesterday to 87 today. Four hundred and fifty gallons of chemicals were injected into the vessel's hold. ■-■ The body of a man seen floating off Taylor's Mistake to-day is evidently that of Samuel Buckett, drowned while fish ing two days ago. The police went out ya. the steam launch, but owing to theheavy sea could not recover it. December 18. A man named William Thompson was thrown out of a trap at . Killinehy last night and dragged along the rode, receiving injuries from which he died, this morning. - ■"■'• Professor " Jackson, parachutist, attempted to ascend from a paddock. near •the railway station this evening. A strong north-west wind was blowing, and carried the parachute against the telegraph wires close by. It became x . de taqhed. Jackson jumped off, escaping Tinhurt. The balloon was carried \ over the Port Hills and across Lyttelton harbour, on the south side of which it was secured. . ■'■■','. By the Tongariro, Messrs Pond and D. Duncan are exporting to Bngand several agricultural implements, including a dray, Souble furrow plough, and small articles. They have been sent to the order of Mr L. A. Mac herson, of Staffordshire, who, some years ago, was farming in this Colony. Two hundred and eighty-one entries have been received for the intercolonial bicycle races on Boxing Day. . The fire on the Beltana is believed to be extinguished. Arrangements are being made to discharge the cargo. Wellington, December 18. The Coptic left Plymouth for Wellington, via the Cape and Hobart, on the 14 th inst.