INTERPHOVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 60, 13 January 1883, Page 2

INTERPHOVINCIAL.

• [rEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, This Day. A bushman named Cunningham attempted suicide at .Northern Wairoa by stabbing himself in the nock and breast. He said that his mate, Patterson, who was drowned some time back in the Northern Wairoa, had instigated him to do it. He had been drinking. In Chambers Mr Justice Gillies stated that, in cases where debtors conceal any of their creditors names by omitting them from the schedule, and obtain their discharge without the omission being repaired, the concealed liability holds good, and the creditor may seek to recover when he cnn. Wellington:, This Day. "Pp to the present time upwards of 170 applications have been received, applying for the right to participate in the £6,000 granted by Parliament last session towards free libraries. Dunedin, This Day. The San Francisco correspondent of the Otago Daily Times thinks it quite probable that the frozen meat trade from New Zealrnd may be extended to that country. Timaeu, This Pay. A young man named McDonald, who was working on the Fairlie Creek railway extension, was severely crushed between two trucks yesterday, and was removed to the hospital. Chbistcetubch, This Day. The inhabitants of Sumner, the seaside township, eight miles from Christchurch, intend to form themselves into a town district. Owing to the desertion of several of the crew of the ship Marlborough, her departure will have to be postponed a day or two. She has 5300 bales of wool on board, and a quantity of general produce, and will complete loading tomorrow. Ashbuuton, This Day. John Meiklejohn, who stands committed for trial for stealing a large number of Sir John Hall's and M r Bcaley's sheep, was brought up on another charge of stealing five hundred sheep belonging to Mr Cordy, of Hororata. Accused, who is a sheep farmer, and well known throughout Canterbury, was committed for trial on this charge also.