INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
(PBft UNITED PRESS A9KOCI-ATIOY.) Paxmebstok Nobth. November S. A man named William Williams' was killed on the Gorge railway works yesterday by a large rock falling on him • while tunneling. . His spine was brokeu, and death was almost instantaneous.' . . This Day. At the inquest on Williams, who was killed in the gorge tunnel, a verdict of aooidental death was returned. He leaves a wife and seven children. ' The A. and P. Association have effected extensive improvements to ground appointments', includ.ng a second grandstand, for the show orr -Wednesday and Thursday next, will certainly be the most successful one yet held by the society. Woodville, This Day. At Danevirke yesterday, before Captain Preece, R.M., W. F. Knight, J.P., Bheep.' farmer, and Bobertson his shepherd, were committed for trial, the latter for shooting horses belonging to natives on Knight's run, and the former for being accessory before the fact by instructing Bobertson to shoot the horses. Bail was allowed in £50 and two sureties of £100 each. Duskdin. November 7. The defalcations of J. A. Barr, solicitor, are estimated at sums v» ymg from £7000 to £10,000. It is not known whether he has left the Colouy. A victim is said to be a Church of England clergyman, whose hie savings are gone.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 61, 9 November 1889, Page 2
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