INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 73, 10 December 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PiltiSS ASSOCIATION.)" Welling/ion, Tim Day. As a result of the Irish Delegates visit,

the first instalment, amounting to £605, j of the Wellington donation to the Irish 1 Evicted Tenants Belief Fund, will be sent ! Home by Thursday's mail. | -The charges of disseminating indecent literature against Coogan and Hill were heard this morning. The former, who is a boy, pleaded guilty, but the charge I against Hill failed because the Police I Offences Act provides only for the sale or j wilful offering or distributing, and neither could be proved. Hill was committed for trial on another charge of procuring copies of objectionable" stuff. It is stated a number of copies were distributed among the girls attending one of the public , schools Although Coogan pleaded guilty I the case against him was withdrawn Chbistchjcbch, This Day At a meeting of the Kaiapoi laborers last night, they resolved to form an Amalgamated Laborers Union of Kaiapoi and 60 names were enrolled. Blenhiem. DecembtT 8. A terrible sudden death took place here on Saturday night -between 10.30 and 11 o'clock, Mr EL Qt. Kellas. the manager of the local branch of tbe National Bank, being the victim. The deceased was 'suffering from desease of the heart, but, 1 i up to a few minutes before his death, appeared to be in good health. Mr Kel- | las was universally respected, and his sudden death' has cast quite a gloom over the town. ! Chuistchubch, December 7. I A lad named Johu Liudon, who was struck on the head by Obed Hosegood, doorkeeper at the Salvation Army meetiug, Bangiora, on November 24, is in a serious condition from brain" trouble, the supposed result of the blo'wa he received. Oamahu, December 8. Mr John Dillon addressed a meeting: on Saturday night on the subject of Home Bule. ■ .Auckland, December 8. A Hamilton telegram' states that the damage done to the Wuotu bush is much exaggerated. Tb© v property is not, worth ioOOO, and the damage done cannot amount to that sum. ' .

The railway staticnmaster at Ngafuawahia. Mr Pringle, has beea committed to the Lunatic Asylum. He is sane, on all points except railway management, and it is asserted that his mind has been uiihioged by his endeavours to understand the regulations. December 9 The steamer Little Agnes has arrived from Raratonga, and the doubts regarding her safety owing to the discovery of a quantity of oranges and copra on the northern coast have thus been set at reßt. The cargo of the Little" Agnes comprises copra and fruit, but none of it was lost on the voyage The master, Captain Harries, knows nothing of an Island vessel bound to Auckland which was likely to have met with a mishap off the coast.