INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 24, 7 August 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

O'ER UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.) Auckland. August 6. No inquest trill be held in the case jpi 'tn« radden death of the wife of the Etr: A. McUallum, Dr Kenny stating that de»th was caused through heart di*es>»e. Her ton came home and found her lying insensible on the floor. The wauling barque Petrel left Bu* •ell to-day The question of abolUhing the Lock Hospital is again before the Gity Council The motion for it* abolition lapaed. A motion fer a poll of ratepayers was: then submitted, nnd the amendment moved, That the Contagious Diseases "Act be made applicable to males as well as females, and that, patients aheuld pay their maintenance. After a lengthy dis* cusiion the decision was ad j earned. • DOKBDIIC, August 6. In the Divorce Court torday, the judge decided that the petitioner's attendance was not required in the case of Mills t. Mills and Kerrier. arid granted a decree nisi with costs against the corespondent. . A plumber named Ciouirh and a boy named Cowper were severely injured by the explosien at the gaswworks. dough was charging the receiyer with 'hydrogen when he struck a matoh and the ezploiien followed. ! , Chbistchttbch, August 6. : The rule was made absolute by If r Justice Williams in the divorce ease Wakefield and another. A Chinaman Ah S<w, who has been residing in Southbridge for so ne time, oommitted suicide last sight at about 10; o'clock by taking a dose of opium. Deceased was ajwut 60 years old. A trolly loaded with timber, on whioh a man niamed Henry Lewu wai sitting, wnn pr«cipitftted into the sen at the Heads works. Lewis' head received uch severe injuries that recovery is <l übiful, Napi s, \ugust6. At a meeting of th<> H • wke's Bay Jockey Club, itvras decidtd to increase the stakes . tor the • ensuing year . from £5000 to £556 i». ; . T^blli»(JTON, August 6 Mr W. Stace, of Pahautanui, has: been , killed by a log falling on him. ' '