INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 106, 14 March 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PRESS ASfeOCIA'NOIT. Wellington, March 13. Robt. Roodmar, farmer, aged 46. fell dead yesterday. He had been ailing some time. It is unlikely that further steps will be taken re the death of Mrs Astridge, the police not haying eufficent eyidence to undertake the prosecution. Timabv, March 13. A fine shower of ram last night broke the driest spell known for many years. The pastures were parched, and the water for stock scarce m many places. Invbbcabgill, This Day. Advice from Lumsden, 50 miles north of Invercargill, report 16 hours rain and heavy tail of snow. The rivers are in flood, carrying away quantities of grain, while part of the railway has been washed away near Rani wa. It is feared great damage is done to crops and stock. Auckland, March 13. A Native meeting, attended by 800 Natives,- was opened at Waitangi, Bay of Islands, to-day. CHBisTCHracH, March 13. Between 1 and 3 o'clock this morning a heavy thunderstorm, with rain and bail, occurred in Lyttelton. In Christchurch heavy rain began to fall at 3.30 p.m., and lasted until 6 o'clock, and at 8 o'clock a short but heavy hailstorm broke over town. Wanganui, March 13. - An officer in the Government service here, who has been absent on leave, haying failed to'return when his leave expired, disquieting rumours are afloat concerning him. A very heavy yield of wheat is reported from the north road, between Kaiapoi and Woodend, where| a seven acre paddock yielded 651 bushels, or 93 bushels per acre. The coopers threaten to strike unless they : receive an inorease of 6d per day by the 3 1st m6t.