INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 62, 4 November 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(.PEB UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION. CnaisTcnußCH. This Day. The name of Black Rose was omitted from the list of Derby payments. Nelson, This Day. At the Supreme Court the trial of John McLeavy, charged with arson, lasted all yesterday. At 10.5 last evening, after retiring for one hour, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged. Pobt Chalmebs, November 2. A rifle match was fired on Saturday afternoon at the Port Chalmers butts between 10 men of the Dunedin Rifle Club and 10 members of the L. Battery Artillery Volunteers. The Artillery scored 484 and the Rifle Club 449, the L. Battery thus winning by 35 points. Dunedin, This Day. Harry Herd, a well-known bootmaker, committed suicide by hanging this morning. For some , time past it seems that his affairs had not been prospering, and this, together with the fact that during the last three or four weeks he had been drinking heavily, caused him to get into a very low state of mind. Robert Sainsbury, a young fellow who worked for deceased, came to his work at- the usual time, and on going round to the back nf deceased's workshop, saw him hanging by the neck from a bracket which supported a. last rack. Sainslury immediately entered, and found that his master had hung himself with a piece of canvas bagging At a late hour last evening a newsagent- named George Hartley Walker, residing at South Dunedin, was rec ived into the hospital, having attempted to cut his ; throat on Thursday last. The •wjund is a slight one, and it is expected that Walker will soon recover. He says he w >s not under the influence of drink when he committed the act, and is sorry for what he has done.