INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 154, 8 June 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

___B UNIT HD PRESS ASSOCIATION. Avckland, June 7. Mr Fenton, late Chief Judge of the Native Lands Court, has. sent a petition to Wellington, claiming a full investiga-* into the serious imputations against him in the Premier's memorandnm in refer* ence to the dealings of the Native Lands. Court with the Owhaokeand K4 a*-nawti Blocks. ..-,--- In a football match a young man named Biggs' had his thigh broken. Dunedin, June 7. . A child three years old, daughter of Mr Blair, a milkman near the city, pulled a kettle of boiling water over herself, iv the absence from the home of her parents, yesterday, and died from tho efforts of the scalds this morning. Weminoton. June 7. The Dunedin Corporation have wired to the Government asking them to pay the claims m connection with the recent blasting operations,' amounting to nearly £1000, and Councillor Robin, of Dunedifr has arrived, and had an interview with Ministers. The Government declined in anyway to become responsible. At a meeting of the creditor* ,**» f J. Stuart Reid, in«umn c agent, the Orficinl Assignee said that the statement shoWf-d that the debtor's personal-expenditure had been at the rate of £700 a year, and for the past three years he had been going to the bad at the rate of £400 per annum. The creditors decided not to oppose his discharge. A. man named James Molntyre was stabbed at Paikakariki this afternoon by a man named Matthew Johnstov Me* Intyre was brought into the hospital and Johnston tothe loektap. The Government havo not considered the Representation Bill yot, and it is understood that it will not be touched this B* s«ion but that aaothor session will bo held early next yotr. Chbistchubch. June 7. Mr Billons storekeeper of Akaroa, waß selling some blasting powder in his yard this morning, and the purchaser, James Hewitt, lit some, to try if it was damp, when all the powdtr — several pounds — exploded. Both men on fire crossed the road te the chemist's where their handstmd heads were found t© be severely burned. They were carefully attended to by the doctor, and are pro* grossing favourably. J __________SS___— —-———-»