INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 66, 6 November 1883, Page 2

IN TERPROVINCIAL.

[PBB UXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Oamaiut. This Day. A man, supposed name David Castle, commitced suicide at Oamaru on Friday night last. He took a razor out of his swag and with it nearly severed his head from bis body. No cause is assigned. DuNEDjic, .'. kU Day. In the Magistrate's Court. Yesterday the resident .\>!ijzistrate held that money knowingly lent for billiards was recove- 1 - ■ able, lie said that playing billiards for tnom'F was gaming, b«t billiards ..was not an unlawful game, being sanctioned by the Licensing Act. CHiiisTCHTTBCH, This Day. W. Pritchie was found hanging to a tree at Stouey Ureek, Sefton oh -Saturday. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. A chili two years old was found yesterday in a well at Kainpoi. Ifc was pulbd out at once apparently dead. Artificial respiration .was resorted to, and animation was restored. The shock to the nervous system, however, was too great, and the 'child died in two hours. A man, for- assault ing and obstructing the Inspector of Nuisances in the execution of his duty, had to pay in fine and costs £418s. The police to-night made a raid on the City TattersaUs, a place where it is alleged a totalisator is worJced. They arrested fifteen persons who were in the ■ r<'O:« at .tlie time. Tlit'se were all bailed out. Tl»e polie*' remain in possession of the premises, in which they found a registering apparatus. A» CKiiyjD, This Day, An Auckland lawyer who had L4OO (?) to LSOO • about Martini* Henri winning the D"rby went to the bookmakers and offered L2O to cry the wager off, They refused, and doubtless now regret. The A. and P. sbow on Thursday promises to be a great success. The entries ire more numerous than last year, < especially in sheep. By the Penguin intelligence was received of the murder of a trader, ]?d ward McEwan, at the station at Apia,- by : nucires. A Frenchman named Matthew '■ Yarrow, was tomahawked while trading : at Ahoa. ( Patba, This Day. A two roomed cottage belonging to J. ', Lett was burnt down at 3.30 this morninii. The houxe was empty and the. 1 ' adjoining cottnge was gutted. Another 1 on the other side escaped owing to the ( exertions of the Fire Brigade. All cottages were empty. ' - J Weiitngtoit, This Day. ' It is expected Major Atkinson «'ill' leave for Australia at 9 o'clock on Monday *\ next. ' ''• \ • j