INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1, 12 June 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

.■*. ISS AsaociATioN.l .and, This Day. - Capi •Y . ■ A himself through . the hea. A •' .' opposite "his residence %,. • last 'night. Deceased had *, a barmaid, but they i. >ted : for sometime. It is re i was suffering from the ci -?»«-.-' ajjd was troubled in minu »puniary matters. Major Jackson and V ••..r.nd intend to stand for Waipa. An immense number of pt having been reported recently have arrested the members of t. organised thieving gang. CHBISTCHUBCH, Thi. A four-roomed cottage occi' Thomas Osborne, junior, at Ov' destroyed by fire at 3 p.m. under suspicious circumstances, no one was supposed to be in the he. the time, footsteps were heard by __$-7 neighbors just before the fire broke outjs and a box of clothes was found outside, evidently removed before the fire. A seam of coal 12 feet thick has been traced in the Grey district near Blackball Creek for half a mile. Coke has been tested and highly spoken of. A Grey-' mouth firm have obtained a' lease. . Some excellent specimens of copper ore have been brought from the Maiden district. ' Dunedin, This Day. The Kaitangata coal mine, which was opened up yesterday in the presence of ' some of the directors, has caught fire again, probably; through the influx of air, and. will have to be reclosed. _ The licensed victuallers have memoI ijalisetL-^arliaqient to dispense with eleeft\ve qqp&nittees, they having proved a lamentable failure, and that the Act be amended so as to allow of a non-elected 'bench over the whole colony.