INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 53, 20 December 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

- - -*- - - ■ - [pee uxitkd pkkss asscoi.vtion.] I Auckland, This Day. ! Hardy, who died from excessive drink - | ing last week, was a short time previously i left £'2000. The Curator of Intestate J Estates is not able- to find more than £150. ! I'crmission having been obtained from ! the Colonial Secretary, Superintendent I Thomson vrill exhume the bodies of the i laic Hugh Hamilton and his child tomorrow The billiard me. fell between Weston and Lyons, bootmakc/s, for £50 to £10, was sao!) by tho former by 21 poiuts. The g;;me was 500 up. Lyttkltox, This Day. Arrived, the ship Hurunui, Captain Hazlewood, from London. She brings 62 passengers. CintiPTCiiUßCH.This Day. After a week of stiffling weather it commenced to rain off and on to-day, but it has been very light. Ihe basis of the agreement re wool sale is, instead of Is 8d per 1b buyers will pay 2s per bale or 2s 6d if delivered at Christchiirch railway station. Tea trout weighing iOj-lbs were taken by one angler in one day out of the Selwyn. Such a take experienced anglers here say they have never seen before. Mr William Klder, of Port Chalmers, manager of the Company which fitted out the whaling barque Splendid, now lying at Lyttelton, visited that vessel on Friday, when he received from Captain Farle SS-llbs of ambergris, extracted from one whale. Mr Elder estimates the value of the ambergris at £45,000, as it is stated that that commodity sells at £'4 10s an ounce. "Wellington, This Day It is proposed to entertain Archibald Forbes at a public banquet on Saturday evening. The ship Pleone has cleared for London with a cargo of wool, tallow, skins, and flax, preserved and salt meats, valued at £92.G55. Amongst the cargo are ten casks of salt beef, prepared according to the Admiralty sample, for navy use, by Gears Meat Preserving Company. To-day is the last day for sending in property- tax statements. It is understood that all posted to-day will be received, and penalties will be strictly en- ! forced thereafter. The body of Mr Joseph Saunders, aged 80, father of Mr Joe Saunders, the well-known contractor, was found yesterday morning in about two feet of water, close to the railings of the Te Aro baths. Dtjnemx, This Day. On Saturday evening, as the train from Invercargill to Dunedin was passing across the Taieri Plain, an aerolite descended within about one hundred yards of it. There was a flash and an explosion, the latter sounding as if fifty thousand rifles had all gone off at once. The passengers congratulated themselves that the visitor from space fell clear of the train. For ten senior scholarships there are twenty-three competitors, and for six junior there are forty-eight. Timaetj, This Day. The poll in connection with the raising of the £100,000 loan for the extension of the Timaru harbor district was taken today at a large number of polling places throughout South Canterbury. All returns but five small ones are in, and give the following result : — For the loan 1211, against 29. Of the latter 18 came from Waimate. Napier, This Day. The Bishop of Waiapu informs the Herald, with reference to Mr Sheenan's letter, which was a few days ago tele* graphed from Auckland, that his lordship accompanied Mr A. Mills on the only occasion of his visiting Rotomahana, and that Mr Shcenan must be mistaken In liis recollection of what then occurred. Westport, This Day. The Resident Magistrate to-day de;lfired the whole late mayoral election roid upon a petition. It was supposed .hat the Returning Officer had disallowed >ap rs which were crossed*? diagonally, ilso others with a simple down stroke, d stead of the name being erased horizonally. On a scrutiny by the Resident rtngisfrafe'lhis proved to be the case in hree instances, hence the election being cciarcd void. it