INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 41, 8 April 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[FE - UNITED PHR. A ___OCUT.©N.I Wellington, This Day. At the Supreme Court P. E.- Watty, formerly commission agent here was «en ■tenced to five. year* for forgery. f . Opunake, This Day. Mrs Plumridge, a half caste, poisoned herself and two 'children here last evening. Her brother, George Taylor, and a Maori boy named Tauri were in the house. Taylor heard one of the boys reaching, and went in to see him. Mrs Plum ridge sent him to the Constabulary camp for assistance, but did not . say anything about poison, and . when he returned "he found the mother and the other boy poisoned also. Auckland, This Day. Ghastly probabilities of a mysterious tragedy are suggested ; by the discovery of a human skeleton by the side of a long disused track near tbe town of Hamilton, in the Waikato. Fragments of clothing, Ac, proved to be the body | of a European soldier. The police purEose keeping the skeleton on. view at the arracks for. some time, in the hope that some clue to its identity may be forthcoming. Chbistchttbch, This Day. The Cathedral bell was lolled on Saturday afternoon on the occasion of the Duke of Albany's funeral, and the flags at . • Christchurch and Lyttelton were hoi fc-d ha .-mast. The F re -mason h have gone into mourning for a period of three months. j By the steamer Runpehu on Saturday, the Acclimatisation. Society sent a number of Paradise duckw and Ulue Mountain ducks to the Loudoii Zoological Society. The body of a mau four_d yesterday evening in the Waiau .River ha*/ not yet been ii_dentitied. From appearance it is supposed to be a tramp. ;,-.■" .■_ .-;,%., .*^,u.i ■■ .