INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 138, 15 May 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I I JBB JBEW ASSOCIATION J . : -'' : - : NBiW, May V*. ■ , L^Last night a man named 12»>l'*rt Gross, a resident' or Motueka r when passing the post office, fell,' and bpfore he could be carried hjme expired! The cause of death was heart disease Mrs Davy, aresidentof Motueka, went into a trance last Saturday and remained £inpttiat condition 48 hours without recovering * consciousness. Her reason; had gone and a suicidal mania was exhibited. With difficulty ehe was prevented from 1 injuring her children, and this afternoon • ; was committed to 1 'the Nelson Asylum. ,>..?,.!: ; „.!:-■■: S ■ ForrpN/Maj 13. At a meeting of the Hemp Millers Association/ to-day it, was, resolved that steps be taken to- wards the formation of "A grading and Finance Company," and that the minimum price of flax 'at ' Wellington be £17 a ton. as it cannot be •produced ibr less to pay. . , ' Chrlstchubch; May 14 A mysterious loss of 415 from a flock of 1070 sheep is reported by X; Mclutosh, of Southbrook. They are supposed to hare been stoles. - . ... ) * >iv -^] : Mr Henary .Grow, a .railway;. shunter, was run oyerbjr a'truckand kilhiilat 255 p.m. to-day, while ehubtiiig .» truck at the Addin^ton Station. No one saw the acoideot. Mr Groves was a single man r aged 40, very steady,, and had been employed for ten years on the railway. L~ ' j AcGKtAHD. This Day News from . Samba states :— A murder, accompanied by cannibalism, has been discovered at Apia. An old man having been killed and part of the body eaten. It is supposed the deoeased became involved in a quarrel with some foreign labor boys. The German Consul is investigating the matter, but noolue to the perpetrators of the criqae has' yet been found. ..-. ••; •.:',- ■••• ■ ■..''■ :<■:■■■■ '■:■ ■ .■■ • •■■•- Another letter has been received by Sir George drey, from Henry George who is now in Queensland* Mr George stales he hat received numbers of letters urging him to include New Zealand in hi* tour, and that a liberal offer has been made from Wellington. He still feared, however, that his. arrangements would not allow him, to come here, though he felt inclined to make a spooial effort to cotnply with th» wisheßiOf correspondent*. - •