INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
[per united press • Association.! Woodville, This Day. Timothy Ring, employed on the Gorge railway contract, was drowned while crossing the Manawatu river last night. Blknhkim, May 2. i In the Supreme Court toaday the trial is talcing place of the action Holmes and Bell r. National Insurance Co., for th« recovery of £200 «n a policy upon Foster and Goshnn's meat preserving plant included m a bill of sale to plaintin>. The defence is that tiiere is no insurable interest, as the plaintiffs had effected two other insurance on their own account and that the total of the three exceeded the ralue of the plant. A party of Maoris fishing on the Wuirau bar, yesterday, captured a seal 6ft 10m lone- This is an unheard-of visitor on Marlborou^h shores. The color is gray, inclinine to white, with a bright yellow tinge on the belly. Unfortunately it was not taken alive. Chbistchu^ch, May 2. Tha workmen at Scott Bros.' foundry were engaged all day yesterday and all night over the job of casting the new flange for tUe Arawa. The work was finished this morning, and the repair of the steatn«pipe baring been effcted, tbe vessel left again for London at 1130 a.m.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 127, 3 May 1887, Page 2
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