INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 44, 27 September 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

( jib vmn rw&Bs AStoaikXioat/} Gisboenß. This Pay. A meeting of Natives in the district Aro and Whatatuhu was held on Tuesday for the purpose of entering various protests against the aspersions oast by counsel for the defence v. the-reoeni Streeter murder case, in suggesting that the Maoris might have committed the deed. A letter signed by 87 chiefs was forwarded to the Minister of Justice protesting against the statement made. CHftisTCHtmcH, September 35. George Breitraejer, of St Albans, who had a road-making OOfttraot at Sumner, disappeared about 6 a.m. on Monday, when one of his sons heard him moving about his room. He has not since been heard of. * lNVoEei»Giti. Sept 25. A boy, aged 15, named Matthews, *esiding at Beumora, met with a shocking acoident, and it is frared the result will be fatal. He was playing frog jumping with a broom handle, when the end caught in a rent in his trousers and penetrated | hiu abdomen.. \ A young seaman named Jackson, of the schooner Waireka, saved the life of a ohiid who fell from the jetty this evening and was earned by the current under the ressel's bow. DrußDijr, September 35; ! At a meeting of the Otago Branch of the Medical Association a resolution was passed that this branch views with alarm the spread of immoral and corrupt publication, and would urge on other branches the d.uettion of how the growth of indrceat adtertUements and lit«vr«ttiie can heßt be »et with in view of taking concerted action. Misi-88-roir, Sept. 26. A two year old son of James Phil lips, wa* run over and killed yesterday after«6e&. ' ' • ■■■ ■■' ' ' WliMjeiox, Sept. 2)8. The primage duty of t per ce«t,. which ha* been levied for the past two years and a half on all goods imported into the > colony, will not be oolleeted alter Tue&-