INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 79, 20 December 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! (.'hrtstchurch. December 1 8 A patient at the hospi al, who was admitted on Sunday, and gave the name of James Davjes, disappeared from the in? stitution on Sunday night. No trace has since been found of him. When last seen he was dressed only in his trousers, shirt, and socks. A man named John Hurrell was drowned to-day while attemnting to cross, the Hurunui near Culverden To-day a boy named Enlund, 13 years of age, attempted to get on a railway truck in motion. He fell, and hts right leg, his body, and bis right arm were badly crushed. The arm has been amputated at the shoulder. He is in a critical state Auckland, December 18. Yesterday Lieutenant-Colonel Carr. was married to Lady Chute, widow of the late General Chute; at St. Mark's Church Reranera. Lirutenant'Colonel Carrsprved in the New Zealand warand in the Afghan ami Egyptain campaigns of 1880 and 1882 Wellington, December 19. A rumour was about to-day that Sir William FiteSerbert had resigned tbSpeakership of the Upper House. Ministers state that. s<> far from resigning. Sir William is now sufficiently recovered to he able to resume his duties, and at the latest information fully intended to do so he report was probably due to the Premier's recent visit, bnt tbat was due to. a to: ally different motive. Dunedin, December 19. Bernard Gin.sberg, a bankrupt, who; <epi a store at N - nihorn. has been comui!t<>£ for trial for failing to account to the Official Assignee for the whole of bR property, The evidence showed that a cousideradle portion of his stbbk was not" accounted lor.