INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 48, 7 October 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Gbkymouth, October 5. Yesterday a Chinese patient at the hospital cut his throat with a Chinese knife or razor, and died instantly. He was slightly insane. Thos. A. Williams, footballer, broke his leg at Cobden yesterday in the course of the game. Dunedin, October 4. Attention is directed to the long continuance of tlip drought, and it is predicted that there will be a water famine in Dunedin this summer. Auckland, October 6. The Eev. Charles Clark, the celebrated, lecturer, arrived to-day. A distressing accident befel a young girl nuuied Agnes Littlo, aged about 17, ut Kmgland yertorday. A neighbour named George was cleaning an air gun, which he believed to be unloaded, when at went off and the charge, a small pellet of lead, lodged in Miss Little's eye, which was destroyed. The bullet •was afterwards extracted, but it is feared that the sight of the other eye will also be lost. Wanganui, Ootolier 6. Mr Carson, who. opposes Mr Ballance for the Wanganui seat, addressed one of the largest and most representative meetings of electois ever held here, to-night. Mr P. li. Jackson occupied the chair. Mr Carson touched on the subjects of finance, Parliamentary procedure, lands settlement, and the labour question. Having spoken for an hour and a quarter, he answered a budget of questions, and was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence.