INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 31, 22 August 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[.MB lttflTW PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, August 21. Aotoai Gsehneil, a lanatic who killed an Armed Constabulary man at Taranaki, and also Mills, a patient in the Amckland Asjlam, a couple of years ago, ha* hanged himself. The broke the wire •". whieh the sashes of the windows were hung, and tied it round hit neck, drawing it antil he strangled himself. Dunkdik, August 19. The divorce ease, Watson v. Watson and Gillespie (co-respondent), was heard to-day, in which John Watson asked fer a dissolution of marriage on the ground of bis wife's adulterj with the •••respondent. I It is rumoured that two large commercial houses an in difficulties, but it is expected thej will be able to arrange matter. Several smaller failures an also reported. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquost on the body of Crisp, killed by a djnamite explosion. A man named John Malanoir was feund dead at Deep Stream. He had been left to hare a rest bj a man who was travelling with bint. There are no marks of violence. Wsuivotoit. August 20. Mr Maeandrew has given notice of the following metien in the House of Representatives :— " That, in the opinion of this House, it is expedient that ' The Government Insurance Act 1884,' be repealed, inasmuch as one of the. ehief I •bjeots of the Legislature in passing the <aid Act — vis., the popularising of the institution and the entension ef the benefits thereof throughout the colony by means of influential local boards at the chief eontiws of population — has not been realised.