INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 90, 17 January 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PEB UNITED PR FBS ASSOCIATION ) New Plymouth, January 16. At half- past seven this morning William Skeats, aged seventeen, whilst bathing in the Hinu river was drowned. He dived in and is supposed to have struck a stump of a tree in the river and was stunned and never rose again. Deceased and three brothers younger than himself were ail bathing to-gether." The family of Skeats came here from Hamilton, Waikato, about a year ago. The inquest will be held this afternoon. Mr Courtney, who brought out from England in the Tongariro last trio thirty one young men, has succeeded in placing them all in comfortable situations on remunerative terms. Henry Clements, who fell down a well at WaingongorO, near Hawera, at the beginning of the month, and fi aotnred one of his ankles, has died through amputation being delayed too long in order to saye the limb. Chbistchubch, January 14. Nils Jacobsen, charged with the murder of Mats Johansen, at Little River, on October 3rd, was found guilty of manslaughter at the Supreme Court today, and was sentenced to penal servitude for life, Carterton, January 14. A fatal accident happened at dusk last night to a son, aged two years, of Mr J George Gasking, ef Clareville. The child, while playing, fell on a pair of sheers, which entered his neck and penetrated the jugular vein. Death occurred while he was being taken to the doctor. W anganui, January 16. A weilftknown stook dealer, Jno. David son, fell down dead this morning in his house whilst, being washed. Deceased had been ailing some time, and is supposed to have died from heart disease, from which he had been suffering* Auckland, January 16. It is reported that payable gold has been discovered at the Upper Waihou, Hokianga, on the land of Hokia Peat* nare. aiid that assays have yielded 3ozs to the ton. Masterton, This Day. . Mr Mackay, Government Geologist, visited Fernridge, near Masterton, yes* terday and is^satisfied of the existancb of a valuable limestone formation, also coal and other minerals are in the neighborhood. Wellington, January 16. The dead body of a female child, seven days old, was found in a sugar bag washed up on the beach at Evans' Bay. From the appearance of the body, it seemed to have been in the water 24 hours,; and the child first strangled. At present there is ao clue to the perpetrator J of the crime. This Day. At an inquest on the body of the infant found in Evans' Bay, the medical evidence showed that death apparently resulted from strangulation. A verdict was returned of wilfnl murder against some person or persons unknown Dunbdin, This D*y. By a fire afcßyebnrn station belonging to the N. Z- Loan Co the National lost . £400 New Zealand £300. AccKTiAKn, January 16. The New Zealand Sugar Company have advanced prices for their vari-ms grad- a of sugar j 10s per ton for. Nos.) I and % and 30?<$*r tott-fer No* 8 and A.