INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 46, 25 September 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[JPSB UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] Gbeymouth, September 23. About £4000 was paid in Brunuerton for the fortnight's wages, the largest amount paid for a very long time. Invebcabgill, September 24. A magnificent sample of cold from the ground proposed to be w#rked by the Wakatipu Goldmining and Sluicing Company, now forming, is on exhibition here. Some of the pieces are up to half an ounce, and all very coarse. CHKIBTCHTXBCH, Sept. 24. The racehorse Carbine left in the tfauroto for Australia. Wellington, This Day. The Prrmier left for Taranabi by this morning's train, on pri?ate business. Auckland, This Day. Edward Walsh, a dangerous lunafic, has escaped fr«-m ihe Asylum. He was commit ted to gaol six months ago for attempting to shoot a man at FTelensville and there became insane. Should he go

to Helensville it is feared lie will attempt to murder his mates. Tliis makes two dangerous lunatics now at large iv the district. . A miner named Fred SoraerSj who went to cross, the Waikato river in a canoe at Huntley. on Thursday last, bas not been seen since. The canoe iras found bottom up Mr Lawry. M.H X., addressed his con« stituents at Otahuhu last nicht. and received a vote of thaukß and confi lence. ■ Auckland, September 24. A settler named Rudolph Ritter.a German, who has been residing at Three Kings, is reported as missing. He went out nearly a fortnight ago to look for a hor<e which had strayed, and he has not yet returned to his home, but it is almost impossible that any person should be lost in that vicinity, Whilst excavating the foundation tor a house at Coxe's (Jreek, Mr Ed tar discovered an auriferous patch of ground. A quantity of the stuff has been analysed, and found to contain gold. Ditnedin, This Diy. The Chief Surreyer, Mr Adams, accompanied by Thos. McKenzie, M.H.E., and Mr Pillans proceeded to the West Coast with the o iect of locating the Sutherland falls, said to be the largest in the world. In the mat tor of the Gridiron Hotel, Judge Williams decided a married woman is inelegiblc to hold a license, but stayed the issue of a writ of certi >rari pending the decision of the Court of Appeal. Rapikb, This Day. The case of Ma: o v. Sturrock, through deafness caused by defendant boxing the ear of a child wno was a pupil in the dis trict school, has been dismissea without costs.