INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
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Nelson, April 26.
Smelting operations at the Champion Copper Mine are new proceeding, and are a great success. The fire was lit in the smelting furnace at 11 •'deck yesterday morning, and before 3 in the afternoon about a t*n of metal had flowed from the furnace. Everything is working satisfactorily.
Chbistchubch, April 28. Amann-medß. Mcßit, who was at work at the smallpox hospital on the Sandhills Reserve, died suddenly this morning. He was seized with a fit at ab«ut half-past elevtn, and Dr Patrick was sent for, but the man died before he arrived.
At the sale of the Middle Park Company's yearlings to-day, seven youugsteers were sold for 765 guineas, an average of 109 guineas each. Wellington, April 28. The Gorernor is expected U return here about the middle of uext week.
In the Magistrate's < >»irt th» charge of alleged perjury against W. F. Boss was dismissed, the prosecution offering n© evidence.
A young man named P. H. Dod, lately in the employ of Lyon and Blair's station* cry department was arrested this afternoon charged with forging the firm's sigoatures for various amounts.
This Day. Information has been laid against a manager of a Fire and Life Insurance Company in Wellington for embezzling a large sum of money. The authorities are very reticent, and refuse to disclose the name of the accused. , The amount is naid to be £1,200.
The net proceeds of a concert given in aid of the sufferers by the Taiaroa dii« aster amount to £204.
IN'afieb, This Day.
The inquest on T. A. Cottrell concluded last night. The verdict was that deceased died from carbolic acid, swallowed by his own will, while m a state of temporary insanity.
[FROM OtTR OWN COBREBPONDEUT.J Bulls, This Day. Mr Stephenson has lost another child througk diphtheria.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 137, 29 April 1886, Page 2
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