INTERPROVINCIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1071, 3 November 1882, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Mr. Pond, the colonial analysist, has reported to Superintendent Thompson that he has failed to find arsenic in the stomach and intestines of the late Mrs. Hedges. The daugeter’s statement thus proves a falsification as to the woman being poisoned by her husband. A number of visitors have returned from the oil springs of the Southern Cross Company, Gisborne. Two ladies and several gentlemen were sent down the shaft by the manager, and as some of them stepped into a depth of two feet of petroleum at the bottom they were convinced of the existence of oi'. A lad named Miller, aged IG, whose father keeps a stoieon the Grafton road, Auckland went down a gully between that road and the Domain to search for ferns. Ha was aoc mpauied by a companion younger than himself. Miller climbed to the top of a fence to get over to where the ferns were growing. On the top of the fence were fixed iron spikes, and when Miller was balancing himself on the top to jump clear he slipped down, and one of the spikes caught in his thigh ; and so he was kept hanging on the fence. The boy who was with him was not strong enough to disengage him, and ran for his father. When he arrived he found his son by struggling had disengaged himself from the spikes, and had fallen to the ground, where tie was lying in a pool of blood. He was immediately conveyed to the hospital in a delirious condition, and small hopes of his recovery are entertained. During the recent thunderstorm a child of Mr Lezard, watchmaker, Sydenham, Christchurch, had a very narrow escape from what appears to have been a flash of globe lightning. The child was standing in the yard beside an artesian pipe, when a ball of light, described as being the size of a cricket ball, fell from the clouds and struck the pipe, and appeared to glide down it to the ground. The flash was seen by several persons, who described the light emitted from it as being most brilliant. An ex-polieeman named Lawry, now a fishmonger, Auckland, had a fight recently wth James Rigby, who was connected with Woodyear’s Circus. Rigby bad one eye gouged out but replaced, and the top of one finger bitten off. Lawry was so knocked about as to require medical aid, and was unable to appear at the Police Court to answer a charge of assaulting Rigby. The case was remanded. A wo roomed cottage at Kumara was burned to the ground on Tuesday morning. Barbara Weldon, a woman of ill fame, was living in the house at the time, and before assistance arrived the house was completely enveloyed m flames, and her eharred remains were discovered near the door leading to the street. o .