INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 52, 19 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

{PER UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland. October 17. The leprosy amongst the Manns at Waipa is said to be of the kind known to the faculty as anaesthetic or non-tuber-culated, and people affected with it maylive for years, sometimes dying of other disorders. The is no severe pain, anil the patients go about their usual avocations. The Natives say it is hereditary, but not contagious. ('HsrsrcHUßcrT. October ]7 With respect to the skeleton found in the confluent of the river Okaru yesterday, it trauspires that a bundle of letters found in the neighbourhood will probably lead to the indentification of the man 0. Austin, formerly a clerk in Christchurch, who had dropped the papers prior to-ly-ing down exhausted. The body was found within fifty yards of the public road, [Since identified aWm Fergusson by his wife. Dunedif, October 12. For some days past the older boys in some of the city schools have been conferniig on the question of going* on strike agaiust home lessons. About fi ty of the older pupils m George stieit school were away this morning. They mustered on the hill above the school, waving a bauner made of handkerchiefs, and afterward marching in procession. They behaved very well. The revolt lasted until dinner time, when it collapsed, notice having been sent to most of the parents. Many of the strikers had rather a lively time of it. October 18. The Railway Commissioners will give free passes to the official representatives at the Exhibition from other colonies. ! The West Coast Committees display an obelisk showing the export of gold. The mineral court is rapidly advancing towards completion. The display is very effective, far exceeding that at the Victorian Exhibition. The models of an.interesting description are to be transferred at the close of the Exhibition to the Otago Museum. Chkistchurch, October 18, Yesterday afternoon, a female child of Robertson, baker, Victoria street, while playing in the street, was run over by a horse and cart driven by a Chinese market gardener, who, instead of stopping, drove honrewaTxl at a brisk rate. The cfcild's chest was completely crushed, life being extinct in a few minutes.. The police followed the Chinaman, and arrested him. .' .