TOWN KDITION

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 19, 21 July 1883, Page 3

TOWN KDITION

Special to " Star." SPREAD OF CHOLERA. 140 DEATHS REPORTED. reuter's telegrams. Received July 21, 2 0 a.m. Alexandria, July 20. Latest reports from Cairo state that the cholera epidemic is spreading in a most alarming manner in that city. No less than 140 deaths have]jalready"occurred through the plague. Received July 19. 1 p.m.] Melbocbice, This Day. C. S. floss & Co. of this city report sales — Zoaland'?timbcr, ox ''Doronport, Maria, Virginia, nnd Hrce as follows: — Kauri pine, averaee prices, per I<X) feet superb, hewn logs, 14s 6d ; sawn flitches, 14s 6d ; dressed boards, £ inch to 3-2, average price*, per 100 feet lineal T & G flooring, 6 by |-,'7s ; 4 by H, 7s 6d; 4 by I inch, 4s ; white pine sawn boards. 9s 31; dressed boards, 10s per 100 feet super Demand for timber has slackened and the market is weak. (pee ukited'press associations) Dtjnedik, This Day. A store in Heriot Row was burned down lust night. It was insured in the Victoria office for £150. Nothing saved. The fire was caused by overturning a kerosene lamp. The Equitable Investment Company declared a ten per cent dividend for' half year. Alexander Aitken, 4§- years, fell over a fence while playing, and sustained injuries, from which he died yesterday. At Tnvprcargill on Thursday an infant, son of James McMillan, was left in ."^nrre oMit si^or. nrr r>d 12. The girl !iftod n pnf. of wnt^r nff ilie fire, and when her back was turned her brother fell in and was scalded. Ho dird to-dny. Patea, This Day. •Toprr-h Or^zW, huM'PA suicided at Mnnui.-' 1 '!" yficff*rd'<r. He was employed hv Mr Whittom,and at 8.30 he was found in t!«e shop with liis lhr<vit cut, a butchers' knife covered with blood was lying beside him. No reason is yet assigned for the dee.l, as the deceased had not boon drinking. Tho annual moeMn.T r f the Patea Agricultural and Pastoral Association was hold on Thursday evoning. Officers were elected and with regard to meat freezing a coramitM 1 n,i<; appointed to gather nil infirmaHon us to the cost oE starting works, v.nd report to another meeting.