INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 89, 3 February 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.") .. W.BLLIKGTOM, February 2. An impudent robbery from the person was .committed between one and two this morning at the Duke of Edinburgh H otel. Charles Zahl, an architect, latelyarrived from Sydney, ' was passing along one of the passages, when he was set upon by three men, who knocked him down and rifled hit pockets, taking altogether about £155 in notes, gold, aud silver, and then male off. Th«« Day. Slight showers fell this morning. I' is now fine, but a strmg ,N.W- is. blowing. The course is in good order. Par- ' diimdaie is soratrhed for th- Can. Telegraph Sfcikes.— Little Scout I, TeddyYuile2, Shah 3. Wellington Two-year-old Stakes, -r Crutchfield 1, Rose and Black 2, Lorraine 3. Hurdles— Kingask 1, Master Agnes 2. Kelson, "February 2. Adyices have been received of the sa •• of Nelson hop* at Adelaide at Jsd. A young man named, Wilson, 2 > ye irof age, was drowned thisevening wh t bathing in the River Maitai. He was swimming across a deep, hole, .when suddenly he sank, and although he was got out by some lads before he was actually dead, all efforts to- resuscitate him w?ra unsuccessful. : ; ; ■ , ...•■-. , ~ ; : ; .Wanoaitci, February 2. A case of poisoning by eating tinned Californian salmon ocenrred a few days ago, a family of four being prostrated for a time, but all are recovered now. Oam ABU, February 2. A man named James Sparrow died suddenly on board the Wainui on the trip from Danedin t« Oamaru. He went to sleep on one of the cabin forms, and and some, time afterward was found dead. He had been drinking, and the medical evidence showed that death resulted trom natural causes. His stomach had nothine but a small quantity of alchol in it. Cambbidgb, This Day. Adolph Laurie, a well-known traveller for vanous seed firms, committed suicide last night by hanging himself. Pecuniary embarrassment is supposed to be the cause, . - .