INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 46, 28 September 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(FEB UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION.) (rBRTHovrH, September 27. Nicholas Robin, a miner at Nelson Creek, wai swept down bis own tail-race and over the face of a terrace 80 feet high. He received serious injury and has been taken to the hospital. I Auckland, September 27. Yesterday morning the body of a woman was found floating in the harb«ur at the foot of Albert-street. It has been identified as that «f Mrs Mary Robinson, a well-known vagrant. She had a peany in her pocket. The foundation stone of the Onehun,»a Woollen Mills has been laid by Sir Maurice O'Borke. The mills will be similar to those at Mosgiel. Be football match, Auckland v. New South Wales, the referee's disallowance of the goal, claimed by the Sydney men was made through a misinterpretation of the rales, and consequently the goal has been allowed. A bail was given in honour of the visitors in the Freemason's Kail, and a fishing excursion down to Kauraki Gulf by the Rugby Union. The team leave for Sydney to-morrow, and were unable to accept an inn tat ion to the Thames. Wellington, September 27. It is expected that the criminal xession* of the Supreme Court, which conimeuc on Monday, will occupy three or four weeks, as several cue-, including that against To Whiti, will occupy three days. The Government Insurance Association will be taken oyer by the (jr •vernmen: on the Ist proximo. Mr Franklin, the actuary, will act as under-secretary. Chbistchubch, September 27. A commercial traveller named Fred. P Hunt was committed tor trial to-day «n a charge of indecently as.*a king a girl eight years of ag at Sydenham on Saturday night. Dunedin, his Day. The nominations for the Central seat will take place on October 13th, and the poll on the 19th. Mastkbton, September 28. Scab has broken out in the Wharetuna diitrict on Liverntnn's ran.