INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 92, 17 January 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

LPEB UNITED PEEBB ASSOCIATION. Weixin&ton, This Day. Dr Direr, being surgeon of the N aval Brigade, will be given a miltary funeral, whieh takes place on Sunday. Up to tbe present only 60 applications hare been receired from libraries in the colony for the snbsidy roted last parliament. The time for which application will be receired closes on the 31st inst., and as last year there was nearly 400 applications, it is expected that before the end of the month the present number will be considerably augmented. The distribution of subsidy takes place in March. [Why the Press Association agent in Wellington considers this item worth sending as news is a mystery.] - : Napibb, This Day. \ The body of a newly-born female child was found on the beach yesterday. The umbilical cord was not tied, and' the. bead was a good deal bruised. The inquest will be held- this afternoon. j Boss. This Day. A man named John Langdon out his throat last night, and now lies in a rery precarious state at the hospital. He had been drinking hearily all through the holidays. . Auckland, This Day. Yesterday afternoon an old man named Savage deliberately jumped into the Waikato River at Cambridge, and was drowned. His body never rose out of the rapid current. .._.... j UuNBDiN, Thy» Day. A resident of Woodhaugh, named. Archibald Fraser, was returning home a few nights ago with. his horse and cart, when he fell, and the vehicle passed over him. He was under the influence of drink. He has been since, confined to big bed, and yesterday mornina: he died. . ; ' Waxqanvi, This Day.! A number of larrikins were brought up this ! morning 'at the Police Conrfc for removing gates on New Year's Ere: Three of them were found guilty, and were fined fire shillings each with conts. This being the first charge under the new Act, the EM. said he would deal leniently with them on this occasion. 'I