INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 38, 12 September 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(per united press association.) Chbistchukch, September 10 Mr G. T. Sullivan, the reformed athlete, is now conducting services on his own account, having had the churches shut on him. He is indignant at the Ministers' Association for this, and in his Sunday night's lecture he said if it were not for the grace of God in his soul he would challenge the clergymen of Christchurch in the ring and knock them silly. His patrons now are mostly women and such folk as follow the Salvation Army demonstrations. Auckland, September 10. Joseph Howard, an old resident of Auckland, died to-day. Shortly after the Thames goldfields opened, Howard bought a quarter share in the famous Shotover mine, and in a few years made , about £"10,000. He invested in shares in various companies, and was director of the Union Sash and Door Company and South British Insurance Company. JN apish, September 10. Mary Kyle, who was delivered of a female child and coucealed it in a bag hanging on the door, under circumstances ' detailed in a telegram last wok, was today brought before the Resident Magistrate and charged with the murder of the infant. A remand was granted. The boy Blom, who was stabbed by another boy on Sunday, is now expected to recover. At the recent auction of part of the Riverslea estate at Hastings, few sales were effected. Many sections have since been bought privately, and Messrs O. B. Hoadley and Co. report the sale of 814 acres for £28,400, an average of £35 per acre ; prices ranged from £27 to £50 an acre. Oamabu, September 11. Mr Hislop, ex Colonial Secretary and member for Oamaru, addi c <sed a public meeting here to-night. He received a vote of confidence. Dcnedin, September 11. A man named Arthur Empson committed suicide in a most determined manner at Caversham this morning, by outting his throat.