INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 72, 5 December 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, December 3. The total attendance at the Exhibition to-day was 4345, of which 1082 paid cash. His Excellency the Governor gave a ball to-night at the Government House. There was a large attendance, including several members of the Victorian Legislature. „ Auckland, December 3. A miner named Patrick Sheehan has been killed at Coromandel by a fall from a cliff. Considerable damage has been done by a bush fire, which started in the Waata totara bush, in the Waikato, on Sunday afternoon. Yesterday the fire was raging fiercely, and fourteen buildings, chiefly dwellinghouses, in addition to the mill were destroyed. Is is estimated that about a thousand acres of bush are on fire, and in addition to the growing timber a large quantity of posts cut and stacked ready for use, have been demolished.

A miner named Richard Hall was killed to-day at Waiorongomai, Te Aroha, while at work on the county tramway.

The Kawakawa correspondent of the Herald says that the public should be wary in rushing Puhipuhi. The place is not a poor mans' field. If it is a genuine silver field it is only available to capitalists, whose money will open up the field. The working man will follow as a natural consequence. Another assay has been made by Mr Galbraith of ore received from Puhipuhi, but it was found to be very poor — in fact hardly worth testing. It is believed that this ore came from a different reef to that from which the stuff previously assayed was taken, as there was no comparison between the two samples. Christchurch. December 4

A well-attended meeting of farm labourers was held a Kaiapoi last night to discuss the labour question, and a resolution to the following effect was passed : " That the labouring classes of Kaiapoi suggest that 9d per hour be the standard price of work, and eight hours constitute a single day's work, overtime to be paid at 9d per hour." Wellington, December 4. At the inquest on the body of the child discovered in the back premises of John Jackson, Ingestre-street, the evidence went to show that Mrs Jackson had been prematurely confined. A verdict of found dead, with no evidence to show whether the child was dead or alive when placed in the closet, was returned. A telegram received by the Commissioner, of Police states that the body reported to have been seen in a cave at Mokau was washed out by the tide From a description given, the authorities at New Plymouth say that there can be no doubt but that it was the body of the late Major Jackson. Instructions will be issued to the local police to keep a look out on the beach in the vicinity of the cave, and to secure the body in the event of its being washed up.,