INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 209, 8 January 1894, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PEB PUE99 ASSOCIATION.) Avckiavd, January 6. The Talune for Sydney took the crack racehorse Loyalty and the colts purchased by the Sydney sportsmen, The Hon Mr Cad man. and Inspector Gordon have visited the Pirahaka tnoun tain, Whangarei, from which assays of gold and silver have been obtained, In» spector Gordon cays the district is totally uclike anything he has before seen, and therefore he is reticent uutil bis returns are received. Wellington, January 7. Two informations have been laid against a City tailor, under tho Factories Act, for alleged detention of work people after hours on December 23rd. His Excellency the Governor has re» ceiyed an < fficial reply to the invitation sent to the Duke of York to visit the colonies. It is similar to the cable pub-

lisbed on Saturday morning. Acting on in.' t- uctiona fiom tbo Premier the police have made full inquiries into the alleged fight between a dog and a man in Wellington some time ago, and they havefwired to the Premier that " the statement is utterly false. Nothing further has been heard of the lad Long, but it is foared he has been drowned in the river, near Kereru. Search parties are now dragging for the body. The lad's hat has been found on the batik, and marks discovered as if some one had slipped into the riyer when in high flood. Invehcabgul, January ,6 A man named James Purves is in pus* tody on a charge of obtaining £20 by talse pretences at Rangiora. Purves had bean at Wilson's River diggings, going by the name of Ferguson. He called at the police station here to complain that he bad lost £10 in a hotel at the diggings. After some conversation, Sergeant McDonnell felt pretty certain that Ferguson really was the man wanted at Rangiora, and telegraphed for a full description, which tallied with Ferguson's appearance, and he was arre-trd.