INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 24, 12 August 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

« . I PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 Gbeymouth, August 9 The mines cleared up for the month with 4500z retorted gold from 700 tons. TiMARtr, August 11. At the nomination to-day three candidates were proposed, Messrs Kerr, Hall, and Jones. Th© show of hands was m favour of Hall. A poll will be taken next Monday. It is 6tated that the Unions will giye a block vote. Auckland, August 11. A shocking fatality occured at Whakatane last night, when Mr Charles Gould was accidently shot dead near his homestead, Oporin station. He was getting throii"h a wire fence, pulling a loaded «,nin after him, when the trigger caught. ■ ni the fence and the gnn exploded, the J bnllet going through deceased's heart and ! causing instantaneous death. Mr Gould j had just purchased a station from Dr Campbell of Auckland, for £51,000, and a

fortnight ago left Tauranga to take poa- " session. He came from Napier shortly before, accompanied by his wife ana family of six young children. Christchcbch, August 11. The jubilee of hoisting the British flag at Akaroa was celebrated to-day. Palmebston North, August 11. A valuable mineral discovery is reported on the property of Mr Thompson, in the Manawatu Gorge, where prospecting haa revealed the existence of a reef of copper ore 20 feet wide, with backs of 500 feet. The reef is mainly composed of ore containing rich copper sulphide, and is within ten chains of the Gorge ' Bridge. Samples locally tested give good results, and a quantity is being sent to Sir James Hector for his report.