INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 16, 24 July 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION..! Napieb, Julj 23. Obituary —Mrs Newman, widow of the late Captain Newman, and mother of Dr Newman, M.H.R. Auckland, July 22. It is reported that the accounts of Andrews, the treasurer of the Zealandia Foresters' Lodge, who committed suicide show three of four hundred pounds defi ciency. July 23. A medical man who had to conduct a post mortem examination fit the Auckland morgue yesterday says that institution is the worst of the kind he has ever seen, and a disgrace to those having control of it. The headless body of a labourer on the German plantation at Vailette, near Apia, has been found, and from the circumstances it is considered that the man was tied to a tree and brutally murdered' WoodviliiE, July 22. A heavy slip came down on th« Gorge road this afternoon, preventing the Napier mails getting through to Palmerston It will be two days before the road can be again cleared. Nelson July 22. A hunchback whale, 56ft long, stranded on Tonga last week. It has been towed over to the Boulder Bant, where it will be tried out. Its estimated value is £20 > Blsnheih. July 23. At auction to-day Mr Griffith submitted freehold town properties under mortgage to the Insurance Department. The competition was spurted up to £20, O^O, at which figure it was purchased by the mortgagees These are the properties referred toby Mr John Keer, M.H-H in a question in the house.