INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 62, 22 November 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

«. (PER UNITED PRB9B ASSOCIATION.) Chbistchubch, This Day, The governing body of Christ's College has refused to consider the reinstatement of Mr Corfe to the Head Mastership, and have offered the appointment to the Bey. F. A. Hare. Dunbdiw, November 21. At Balclutha Police Court Joseph Valentine was committed for trial for the murder of an illegitimate ohild. This Day. At Cardrona .Robinson Bros, banked 271ba weight of gold. A small rush has set in, payable ground being taken up for a considerable distance. Blbnheim, Novem er2l. The annual show of the Marlborough A. and P. Association was held to-day. There was glorious weather and numerous entries. The attendance of the public was very large. Auckland, November 21. The partioularj* disclosed at the inquest of the remain* of the boy Archibald Clark, who was drowned at t'oromandel. are of a distressing nature. Tae mother of the deceased actually saw the child* body floating down the river, bat culd do nothing to save him. The will of Mr James Leslie, of j?arnell, who died ths other day, shows that he beqneathed the sum of £5000 for the establishment and maintenance of an orphanage to b» erected in Auckland. Orphans and destitute children of all races and creeds are to be admissible, bat the inmates are to be educated in the doctrine of the Presbyterian church. The creditors of William Head, re« oently adjudicated a bankrupt, held v meeting to-day. It was stated that Head had been arrested at Port Chalmers, but subsequently released, and was now probably in Melbourne A box seized »t Wellington by the police was found to contain Ll7, which was sent on to Auckland* i