INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 82, 4 January 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(I'EB UNII'ISD IMtBSS ASSOCIATION.) ' Auckland, January 2. A notable Maori chief named Hove Wai Tere has died at the settluiueut^of hitson near Kibikihi. He was the oldest chief on the Ngatimaniapoto" tribe, and was a brave warrior 'in the tribal wars .many years ago. '*, *'" . - It is thought. that the poisoned honey from which three Natives recently died at Russell, was obtained by the beea from the blossom of the whauriki plant which grows in- swamp land, and at the inquest it was recommended that some of the honey be analysed., January 3. News of a satisfactory assay of Puhipuhi stone sent to Sir James Hector at Wellington has been received by Mr T. P. Moody at Kawakawa. Sir James Hector states that in No 1 assay of the reef the stone yielded 118ozs 3dwts lOgrs of silver, and a minute trace of gold. A. ..boy named Alfred - Skinner was drowned in the .'Waikato River last night through falling out of a boat. • - C'hk.stchuhcei. J.annary 3 • The Rev. Croasdaile Bowen, incumbent of Riccarton and Archdeacon of Christchurch, died this afternoon, aged 50. He was a brother of Mr C. C. ' Bowen, formerly M.H.R. for Kaiapoi, and arrived in the Charlotte Jane, one of the first fOur ships. ... . Dunedin This Day. Probate in Ashcroft's estate has been granted to the widow, and amounts to .£ISOO, consisting- eiclusiyely .of insurances. Oamaeu, January 2. •A man named Thomas Powell, was killed on the railway line near Pukeuri, on Wednesday afternoon. The body was found lying close to the railway line with the head cut off. The deceased was seen working along the road near- the railway line in the afternoon. He had formerly been in Wellington. ■ An inquest was held, and a verdict of accidental death .was returned.