INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
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Wellington, This Day,
The Mariposa, with English mails of February 23, left 'Frisco for Auckland on March 9, contract date. Zealandia, with colonial mails of February 25, reached 'Frisco on March 16, also contract date.
A serious accident occurred at Otaki last night. Rockets were being fired from the balcony of the Railway Hotel, when by some mischance one was shot down in the street and exploded with great force. Three persons, viz. : W. G. Tewhiti, W. Muir, and Robinson, were seriously wounded, and a boy and native girl slightly. Others had very narrow escapes. Two other accidents are reported from the Upper Hutt yesterday. Johnny MeIntosh, a well-known ex-publican, was knocked down by a horse, which broke his shoulder badly While Dr Wilford was driving him to his surgery the cart upset, causing injuries to the doctor's arm and Mclntosh's head. Dunedin, This Day. By the burning of a three-roomed cottage in Castle street a woman named Margaret Leary, 85 years old, perished in the flames. Woodvillb, March 18. The annual show of the Horticultural and Industral Society was held on Saturday. The show of flowers was inferior, but there was a splendid exhibition of vegetables and fruit. About 600 people were in attendance. Wellington. March 18. Mr Coglau, Goyernment statist of New South Wales, has furnished the Press Association with an advance sheet of the tables attached to hie report upon which the deficit in wheat is calculated. They show the colony has never produced more than 5,868,644 bushels, while this years yield is only estimated at 1,573,000. The mean connumptitm of 10 years is 67 bushels per head, showing 7,414,000 bushels will be wanted in 1889. To the difference of the two amounts must be added 562,000 for seed, which gives an estimated deficiency of 6,413,000 bushels. CHKrsrcHPßcn, March If). It is found advisable to close the East (Jimstchurch School on account of the unusual amount of sicknessiu thevicmity. The school is attended by 1300 children.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 108, 19 March 1889, Page 2
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