INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
I PBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION..! Wellington, This Day. A cap was picked up on Customhouse Quay last night containing a piece _of paper inside dated October 14th on which was written — " I haye drowned myself owing to my hopeless passion for Mary — Joseph St. Rede." T! c police are miking enquiries, but so far nothing is known of any one by that name. Dunei/in, October 16. A man named Henry Dickson, a lab ourer about 50 years of age, committed suicide in Bond street shortly after 8 this evening by placing a dynamite cartridge at the back of his head aud ex plodmg it. The whole of the back of his Lead and right hand were blown away, but his face was uninjured. He recently came from from ilindon, on the Oiago Central line, where he had been working unl he appears to have been short of money. Hokitika, October 16. Mr R. J. Seddon has coramenoed his election campaign, and has been address ing meeting* at d.flvrent centres. Al Arabura he was presented with a purse of sovereigns by the electors, who were iv his former constituency. He. spoke very strongly against the Union Steam Company monopoly, asserting that it -swnyed the actions of the G vemuient and Parliament. Cabtbbton, October 16. Our farmers and sheepowners are going to hold a meeting to consider the new clause i> the She^p Act which makes wool branding compulsory, unless a majority of the owners, representing^ not less than two-thirds of the sheep, object. Oil and ruddle branding is ineffectual and tar injuries the wool. Branding is also regard ed as of very lit le pratical use for indentific»tion purposes in prevention of theft. Many of the farmers »i..i -ule compulsion and a petition ag-.inst it in this locality will probably be got up. Timaru, October 17. A man named Cornelius Sullivan was killed at Temuka to-night by a trac*. tion engine runiing oyer him. No particulars are to band. iNVEttOAKQILL, This Day. Daniel Burrell, -aged fourteeu, gotin the yicihity of a coal pi|i whil? %. blast was being fired, He was bshs by tt Pl«P* of coal and killed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 52, 18 October 1890, Page 2
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359INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 52, 18 October 1890, Page 2
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