INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1973, 18 October 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) tt ™ „ t., AuoKI ' AND . October 17. H.M.S, Diamond sailed to-day for Portsmouth. A lad of eight years, Henry McLaren, was accidentally drowned from a punt In K«ihua Greek, Dargavllle. on Monday last. > *

Mrs Barnes, a passenger by |to.day'a Kdpara tralo, slighted from the oarrlage while it was In motion, when she wu caught by the dreaa and dragged under the oar. Both of her lego were oroshed, and had to be amputated. 'A boy named Anguatine Marphey, five and a half years of age, was killed this evening at the railway Biding near Mount Eden Gaol. The unfortunate little fellow was, with hl« two brothers and other boys, ploying with an empty traok, poshing it baokwarda arid forwards along the line. Deoeased fell m front of the wheels of the truck, and it pasaed over him, horribly mangling him. Death was instantaneous.

Wbliington, Ootober 17. The Fine 4rts Exhibition was opened by the Governor this afternoon. In his address, his Excellency regretted this would be the last oooasion on whioh he would have pleasure In taking part m the proceedings of the Fine Arts Association, a.a he would soon be leaving the colony, The number of exhibits ii 275, and though there la a decrease m number as compared with last year, the Exhibition Is quite equal to those held m previous years. Exhibits haye be&n forwarded from London, Ohrlstcharoh, Nelson, Dunedln a,nd Amberley.

# Ohbibtohoroh. Ootober 17. The body of Matthew George, one of the two fiihermen drowned In Lake Ellesmere, on October 5, was found m the lake, near ltwell, to-day.

mv t> , „ o|7l " sd in. Ootober 17. Ihe Royal Humane Society's medal was presented to-nlght at the Oity Council to James Oannan, who rescued Miss Jeffreys at Ocean Beach, after a young man, John MoOutobeon, had been drowned m the ™ fcem ,P v 3 h .% P reßen t»tlon waa made by Mr Flab, M.H.R. *

A point onder the Married Women's Property Act was deolded by Mr Jaetlce Wllllami torday on' appeal from the decision of the R.M. In Invercargill. The aotlon In the Oourt below was brought by appellant (Matheaon) to recover from respondent (Attkeo) a sum alleged to be due by his wife priqr to marriage, on the ground that be had beoome entitled, through tfye wjfe, to a aura equal to the •.mount of the claim. The Magistrate held that respondent had not beoome possessed of the property left to his wife by will, and this decision the Judge nnheld, ° l