INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 45, 3 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(per united press association.) Auckland, October 1. A young Frenchman, named Charles Adams, 29 years of age, has been lost overboard and drowned off Wangarei. He was a' seaman on the 'cutter Mary Ann, and aa the yessel was sailing down Wangarei River for Auckland, he was knocked overboard, by a wooden cleat viviojj way in a stiff breeze, and Bank. Seaman Neill put off to the rescue in a dingy, which capsized, and he nearly lost his life. October 2. Gold discoveries aria. Reported from Whangarei and Puhipnhi? News from Tonga states that Finipala, granddaughter of the King, is dead. She had been ailing for some time. The Egeria arrived last week, and has, so report 6ajs, added to the Kingdom of Great Britian some thirteen islands. A number of exhibits for the Dunedin Exhibition are to be sent shortly from Tonga, » C'hbtstchtjech. September 3O At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Denmston, Mtb Baldwin, a member of the Uhurch of England, sued Rev. W. A. Pascoe, incumbent of the Holy Trinity Uhurch, Avonside., for; £200 damages for refusing to administer the Holy Communion to her. The proceedings, which were confined to an argument of questions of law, were watched with evident interest by the Very Rev. the Dean, the Venn. Archdeacon Dudley, and olher clergymen. The cases cited went back to the time of Charles II. — in one case at least the report was in NormanFrench, the language at the time used in English Courts of Law. The Judge reserved his decision. October 2. The police have received information that a man named Alexander Greenhill met with a fatal accident at Methven yesterday. Deceased fell off a loaded dray he was driving, and one of the wheels passed over his chest. : Wellington, October 2. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Wellington Meat Export Company and the Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company, it was uuani mously agreed to amalgamate the two companies, and to form a new Wellington Meat Export Company, with a nominal capital of £100,«00, in 20,000 shares of £5 each, the old shareholders to receive the value of their shares in the new company. This Day. The Native Minister left for Marton this morning to attend a meeting of Maoris in the Rangitiki District.