INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 51, 16 October 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

I PR* UNIT R]>< PRESS ASSOCIATION. J Wajsgajwi,. October 14. j Mr Balance addressed a large meeting of electors- last mght in Brunswick schoolroom*. A vote of thanks and con—, fidence- was unanimously earned. Names, October 14. The Supreme Court opened teday. True bills were found in all cases. The petty jury acquitted John Nearaj ant, who art fire to the police station at Waipawsv while drunk. The rest of the day was occupied with the hearing of the charge l of obtaining money by false pretencesagaiost Wiiloughby Brassey, solicitor. ' Dun bbin, October 14 At the Police Court to-day William Ness was fined £3, being the doublevalue of syfc< of tobacco which he was charged with smuggling. There wassome demonstration in Court about the decision, as the Commissioner had sued for the treble value. Auckland, October 14. At a meeting of the Board of Directors the South British Insurance Company, Mr T. Peacock was elected chairman. Mr C.C. McMillan, of the firm of Macarthur and Co., has been chosen to fill the post on on the Pi reef orate rendered vacant by the retirement of Mr Hobbs. A man named James Elwortb wasdrowsed in the harbour to-day by falling: from a barge. He was a single man, 23= jears of age, and his mother is in Auck* land. Invkbcaboix.l, Octoier 14. Alfred ttuxton, a lad of 16, a son of Thomas Buxton, bricklayer. wa» shock* ingly injured among the machinery of his fa'her's works to day. He was applying tar to a belt to make it grip, when he g< fc caught by hi si leg in it aud thrown upon, a pair of mitred wheels,, and completely chewed up his left arm and inflicted,, shocking injuries on the thigh and abdomen. The arm was amputated at theHospital. The lad never lost consciousness*, but his case is critical. Blbnhxim, Oct. 15. , The body of a man has been found in the Wai ran Kiver. It i» supposed to be that of George Lamb, a station hand,, who has been missing smc&22hh3xi]j, I Gisbobnl, Oetobs? 15.' | Miss Amy Jones, daughter of the Ber j Mr Jon?s, of W»ipn, Auckland, died rery suddenly at Whatatutu early this morn* ing. Death resulted from- natural causes.. Wapiib, This Dkj The annual meeting of the New Zealand Bifle Association has been fixed forTueaday, the 20th of January, and following days. . WELLINGTON, October 111:-'•■;. :-'•■; Ex Constable Gillespie, who formerly" held the office of clerk of the Court and. bailiff at Mania, and whose trial for per* . jury was sen* down for hearing at the- . Wanganni Supreme Court, when, thegrand jury threw out the bill, is on his wav to Wellington to lay the matter before the Government. ' . ..