INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
(PBB UNITKD PBESB ASSOCIATIOIT.)
Chbistchttbch, July 26.
A ease of stabbing has occurred here to- night, in which the perpetrator was George Brewn, s lodginehou«e- keeper, and the sufFerer a young man namedThomas McMahon. It appears that Brown bad been the wor«e for liquor all day and quarrelling with; McMahon. Jn the evening a.il the young man was going into the dining room Broun rushed at him with ab open pocket knife. McMahon knocked down his assailant, but he rose, and stabbed McMahon on the left thigh Brown was overpowered and subwqnently arrested an a charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. ThisDav. Grorge Brown was committed for trial foe stabbing Thomas McMahon : in a fracas at Brown's boarding house yesterr day, ' ■■•.- " ■■■.-; -■■■ ■ ;vt; •;,-:• Wbu.iicotok, July: 26V Alexander Chrtstensen, a "carpenter, was killed by a fall from his horse on Saturday. He leaves ik wife and five young children. Dvvumv, July 26. There was a large attendance at the funeral of John Hyde 'Hariris^ which,' as deceased had been Provincial : Grand Master, was & Masonic ojrt v :' Thirty afire ef the vnemplOped are to, be given work on the Otago Central Works. This Day. On Sunday evening Wm. Law, tunnelman, working on the Otago Central, fell over a precipice 300 feet high and was killed. ' He had been seen drinking at several sly grog shops. He was 40 years old, and unmarried.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 19, 27 July 1886, Page 2
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235INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 19, 27 July 1886, Page 2
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