INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 70, 14 December 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[per united press association.] Dunedix, This Day. The City Council will defi-nd the act) m of Sargoods for £5500 damages to suiok through sewers being stopped during the August-floods December 13. The monthly escort has brought down L 25.000 worth of gold. The wealher was distressingly cold yesterday. There were frequent falls of hail all day. [ A six-year old son of a fanner named Crossan, at Whitesow V»ll«Ti near Naseb, was crushed to death by a atone* roller passing over him. Invkkcabgill, December 13. An extraordinary spell of old bohtereus weather is now bein» experienced. Severe hail showers have fallen, aad shorn sh'ep are dying of exposure. Auckland, December 13. The Eev. John Whewell, father in law of the Hon. Thomas Bus ell, has died of an attack of apoplexy. H • was the first Wesleyan Missionary in charge of the Friendly Islands, This Day. Caffrey's mother was fined thi» morn* ing for drunkenness. Mrs Trail, believed to have been drowned in the harbor and buried, uu* turned up The myst ry of the drowned woman is still un revealed. Ashbubtox, December 13. A little gir 1 , named Smitheis, this evening was playing near a pile of planks when one w;is dislodged by another child, and struck her. A pice • of wood which she had in her hand was forced through the roof of her mouth, info her brain, and she died in a few minutes. Wellington, This Day. The first case under the Defence Aot, 188 G. in this city is now proceeding against a private company.