INTERPEOVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 28, 15 August 1885, Page 2

INTERPEOVINCIAL NEWS

Lpib united pbem association. AUCKLAND, August 13. Nelson Larmer, bob of Mr Lanner, Katai, who went pigeon-shooting and was missed, has been found dead with a gunshot wound in his head. It is believed that the- gun caught.in the serab. The children of Robert Henderson, of Mercurjr Bay, were peißoaed through eating tutu. One five jears of age is dead, and the other three years old is in a precarious condition. The Wairarapa, for Sydaey, takes 50 tons of quarts from the Ivanhoe Goldmining <- ompany for Melbourne, to be tested by Mr Lamonte's process. The quartz is yalued here at £5 per ton! An inquest was held on the infant child of Mr Hair, of Otabuhu, to-day. A Verdict of death from taking matche* was returned, A rider was submitted by a jnryman to the effect that it was the duty of the Government to take into consideration the advisability of prohibiting the importation of poisonous matches, but it was not carried. Dunedin, August 13. Scott's backers baro sent £100 to. Bir J. D. Astley, with a request that he will endeavour to find a man in the United Kingdom to meet Scott in a twelve and twenty-four hours' walk for £500 a-side each match. Among the passengers from Mo) bourne by the Te Anau is Mr E. Crestlake, of the Australasian and Argus. He is oa a visit to the colony with a new of contributing articles to those papers, and intends more specially to deal with the industries of the colony. A young woman named Taylor has been remanded one a charge of attempting suicide. She could not get work, and was very despondent, and reading about a' man poisoning himself with "Bough on Bats," she purchased some. Wellington. August. 14. : A meeting of the Exhibition Committee was held to»day, when it was deoided to take absolute control of the Exhibition and conduct it without being hampered by any conditions. It was also decided not to open the exhibition on Sundays. Nelson, August 14. A tragedy occurred at Hope thio mornmg, when Robert Tovey, a butober, was found in the slaughterhouse with his throat cut. Aa inquest has been held, and after a long discussion the jury returned a verdict, "That Bobert Tovey accidentally fell on a knife, which he held ia his hands while dividing a carcase of meat, and in the fall he accidentally cut his throat," »..,<;.