INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 14, 19 July 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PEB UNITED PREBB ASSOCIATION. J Lttteltoh, July 17. Captain Munroe. of the barque K«t< Tathatn, which arrived from the Maori tius to-day, reports that during the passage the cook, a German named Ooddard Elvers, committed suicide by hanging himself to a beam in the galley, on \Taj 29 The steamer Kahu arrived to-day from Chatham Islands with the news that oc ■lime 13th the house of Lanauze, at Oiienega, was burnt through a defect ir the chimney. Mrs Purchovr, a dressmaker, who was sleeping upstairs perished in the fire. Oamabu July 17Last night a man named John Palmet broke into the Post Office, but got nothing for his trouble. The man, who left his boots behind, was captured early this morning by Detective O'Brien. Auckland, June 17. Henry Jackson, a deserter from H. ACS, Opal since 1888. surrendered at Warkworth to the police. He said be would rather go back and take his punishment than endure any longer the hardships oi a gumdigger's life. Chbistchurcet, July 17At a meeting of the Hospital Board, Miss Steele, of Auckland, was appointed matron. The Board decided to postpone consideration of taking steps to bring the Contagious Diseases Act into operation. The Belfast Freezing Works difficulty has been settled. Dunbdiit, July 17. The Education Board has appointed a committee on Dr Stenhouse's motion to inquire into the injurious effects of school life, with a view to checking physical de. terioration. The mover urged gymastics, dancing, and the curtailment of the hoard of study, as palliatives. This Day. A boy, 12 years of age, was received into the hospital suffering from frostbitten feet. He had been playing truant from school and for several nights slept out in the scrub. New Plymouth, July 17. There is considerable inquiry for land in this district. At tb« Land Office yesterday, for five sections averaging between eight and nine hundred acres each, there were sixty-eight applicants. Complaints are made at Government not putting the land at the back of Whareroa and Makeia reserves into the market, and the want of a road to that part of the country to enable strangers to see the land. Timaru, July 17Mr Turnbull, M.H.R. for Timaru, died at 5 o'clock this evening. He was 64 years of age. He had been very ill for the last nine months with Bright's disease. NAPrBB, July 19. A man named Power, while intoxicated, fell into tide way at the Spit and was drowned. Perth, July 19 Owing to the bursting of a lamp tl • steamer Elderslie oaught fire during the voyage from Albany to Freemantle. The saloon was gutted, and a lady passenger was severely burnt.