INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 196, 20 December 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PBB PBB3B ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, December 19. Mayor Bell, in a farewell address to the Council, said the Inspector had reported that since th 9 Council had worked the destructor instead of letting contraots for removal of rubbish, there- wss scarcely a dirty backyard to be found m the city. The health returns sLowed a great improvement, and when the drainage scheme was completed, the town would be the healthiest in. the. colony. Auckland, December 19. The ship Waitangi amyed from London tbis afternoon, 110 days out. Cap* tain Foreditch reports plenty ot ice fallen in with but at a safe distance. The Railway Department have reduced the rate for wool between Auckland and Onehunga. DuNEprN, December 19. James Hughes, a young man of 17 years, was killed at Eoslyn last night by a kick from a horse. The evidence at the inquest showed that deceased bad been riding the horse about the paddock the horse only having a piece of rope round its neck . He dismounted and went to strike the horse with the end of the rope, when the animal lashed out and Btruck him on the head. A verdiot of accidental death was returned. The following team has been selected, subject to alteration, to play against the Auckland cricketers: — Baker, H. Boddingtou, E. R. Boddington, Croxford, Downes, Fisher, Hope, Johnston, Lawton, MacNeil, Parker.