INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 23, 9 August 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

« I PEB UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.,! Dusedin, August 7. William Robertson, 7i years old. was found dead in bed this morning at North Dunedin. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause of death, Chbistchcbch, August 7. William Goodman, whose name Fred Maryland HadfHd is accused of forging to several cheques, died of apoplexy this morning. Mr Young, a farmer, recovered £25 damages from a dentist to-day because the latter's apprentice had pulled out the wrong tooth by mistake. August 8In consequence of Whitcoinue and Tombs having opened up communication with the Maritime Council in regard to arbitration, the labour party has with drawn the pickets which were watching their establishment. Mr Wlutcombe returned to Christchurch to-night. Auckland, August 8. The steamer Rose Casey, bound for Cororaandel. and the paddle steamer Tainui, coming from Waiheke, collided outside the harbour, off Motuiti Island, to-night. The Hose Casey had a couple of plates torn away. The crew an 1 passengers of the Tiiinui scrambled on board the Rose Casey. Palmerston North, This Day. At the Confidence Assembly of the Knights of Labor last night they passed a resolution sympathising with the Maritime Council, re the Whitcombe and Tombs difficulty, and offering assistance, and deciding to ask the local booksellers not to Bell the firm's goods. Wellington, August 8 At a meeting of larg' employers of labour last night, to discuss the labour difficulty, it wa» rrsolred that, in the event of the strike extending to Welling- ' ton, to close establishment* and manu f ict Ties, thus creating a 1.-ck out. ; Owinii to the sbort output of coals on the West Coai-t, the steamer Omapere has been laid up, and the hands paid off. It is stated that other TMielr will dd the same.