INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 87, 16 January 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PRESS ASfeOCrATION.) Gbbymouth, January 16. Thos. Milligan, a well-known . Maori Greek miner, attempted suicide by cutting his throat last night or this morning. He was found by bis mate, Scarlett, in his hut, and brought into the hospital. ' The doctor has adyised him to make his will. Dunedjn, Jiiuuary 15. The following acceptances for the D.J.C. Autumn Meeting were received to-night :— Dunepin Cup, of 600 sov&.— Occident, 9st olb ; St. James, 7st 121 b: Merrio England, 7st 10lb ; Lorraine, 7st 71b; British Lion, 7at 31b; Ixion, 6st 121 b; Stoneheage, 6st 101 b ; DonCsesar, 6st7lb; Phantom, 6^t 51b; Gipay Prince 68t. . . ;: • Wahoanvi, January 14 I The inquiry into charges against the management of the Hospital was adjourned to-day. The inquiry has taken place with dosed doors, and has occupied two days. Tihabu,. January 14 At the second series of wool sales 2432 bales were offered. The sale unfortunately clashed with others at Gore and Dunedin, and buyers were absent. The prices show a drop of Id on fine, and ljd on coarser kinds. A large nnmber were withdrawn. : Chkistchubch, January 12. Mr E. Cuthbert, Engineer to the drainage Board, states r that the death-rate in the Christchurch drainage district is now 11 per thousand. In 1875 it was 30 per thousand. • : It is understood that counsel for ; the persons accused of selling Zola's works will plead guilty at the Court to-morrow and that in that case the charge will be changed from its present' form under the common law and shaped under a city by-law,to enable a fine to be inflicted instead of imprisonment, which v the only punishment provided under the present form of proceedings. . ' January 10. The man who shot himself at Le Bon's Bay is Harry Daviß, a grassseeder, who went to the Bay by the steamer on Tuesday. He was intoxicated on the voyage, and shot himself in a shed on the wharf after landing. . Five booksellers were charged to-day with selling indecent literature, and fined £2 and coats each. Auckland, January 15. Owing to the falling of a tree, Mrs Erneßte, wife of a Hamerstead settler, was killed at Mareretu, her skull being smashed. A child named Wright -has been killed near Whangarei by falling from a cart. An accident occurred at Mimiha, near Whabgarei, on the 12th instant, when a young man named Williams, the owner of the Qwai Hotel, was drowned. : . An important discpyery ia reported from Dargavilie to-day. During the aiuking.of an artesian well in the centre of the town, a dark blue and gree;i cement*hke stuff, containing black sand, was found at a. depth of' 58 feet from the. surface. A small parcel of the stuff, about 31bs, was panned off| and a residumn of black sand and floury gold was obtained. .