INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 144, 11 June 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(per united press association.) Auckland, June 10 The dead body of a man named Benallick was found near Penrose to-day. It is supposed that he was thrown out of the cart he was driving and killed. This Day. The body of a storekeeper named Garcy was found in the Waionui River, near Kawakawa. He wanted to cross at 3 a.m., but a settler in the neighborhood told him to wait till the morning. It is supposed he attempted to swim across and was drowned. Peter Birrell, late Clerk to the Deptity Assignee, who has been wanted by the police 'for some weeks past on several charges of forgery for large amounts, was found hiding, by Sergeant Livingstone, in a farm house near Winchester this morning. The weather on the West Coast has been co bad the Gairloch, steamer, had a narrow escape, having to run into Raglan, being short of coal. She also lost some cattle. The Itowona left Kawhia on Saturday with a barge in tow. Anxiety is felt for her safety .> Hokitika. June 10 A little child named Henderson, while playing with other children, lit a fire, and the flume* caught her dress. She was greatly burned, and died a day or two afterward. David Evans, a miner at Greenstone, while cutting timber, fell into a saw pit Bft deep and broke four of his ribs. His case is considered serious Dunedin, June 1 ». The inquest on the body of Bradford, who, it is supposed, was murdered at Waitahuna, and whose mate (Waddell) is at present in custody on the charge of murdering him, was rosumed at Waitahuna this morning before the Coroner, Mr Rivell. Some important evidence was given, and a solution of the mystery now seems probable. From the evidence of Dr Blair it appears that death was caused by drowning. The deceased wa9 evidently struck a severe blow on the face, and be fell (probably stunned) into the dam. His assailant then appears to have taken the body and hid it in the ferns. The deceased's hat cannot be found, and his dog is iniseiug.