INTERPROVIJNCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 133, 2 May 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINNCIAL NEWS

I PElt UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.,! Christchuhch, 4.pril 30 A Cabman named John McGrath vms stabbed in a brothel to-night by a man named Thomas Gorman, w;tb a pocket knife, inflicting a small wounl below the navel McGratli is progressing favourably. Gorman has been arrested. WINGANtfI, April 3<>. The census returns show the popula iion of the , borbugh to be 5017, an increase of 116 since 1886. This Day. James Mayes, platalayer, Aramoho, dropped dead this inorniag at Kai Iwi, of heart disease. He leaves a widow and large family of youn.er children. ("Mayes was well-known here, having been stationed for a long time at Taonui, and worked on the branch line to Adsett's. Dr Charlton attended him for heart complaint. He was respected by all who knew him.] Francis T. Kenny was committed for trial on a charge of maliciously setting fire to the Commercial Hotel. Wellington, May 1. An inquiry in to a case of alleged dummy ism in connection with a section at Mangahao, Northern "Wairarapa, was commenced at the Land Board to-day. After deliberation the Board passed a resolution declaring that the charges against Ratsey of having Committed breaches; of the Land Act had been absolutely disproved. Dunf.diw This Day. Captain Meades, who was in charge of the Wanaka when she stranded, is dismissed from the Union Company's service*