INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 150, 11 June 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. J Wellington, This Day. The members of the Land Board today waited on the Minister of Lands urging him to modify the new Land Bill in the direction of reducing the value of improvements required under the terms in which Village Settlements are taken up. It- was .pointed out that in many instances the land was poor and it was found impossible to comply with the requirements of improving land to the extent of JBIO, therefore a reduction to £4 was suggested. The Minister promised to give consideration. Mr McKenzie said lie .regarded it dangerous to* re-open the question of valuation, but he hoped to be able to make provision in the new Bill for relief to be afforded in special cases. An old,- settler at Pahautiinui, named William Jones, aged 72, was drowned in a creek on his farm yesterday. His wife was drowned in the same creek 4 years ago. Westport, June 10. E W. White, a shunter on the railway, was 'killed this afternoon- ' He slipped and the train 1 went over him- He leaves a wife find family at Wintori. He came here during the strike. . • Napieb, JunelO. James Chadwick, who murdered Roderick Matheson, met his death in a.irngie manner. After committing the foul deed he made bis way to a high cliff covered with bush, over-looking the scene of the murder, the home station, and his housr-. Appearances indicate that be then got some flix. and tying one end in a noose round hia neok and the oiher end round' the branch of a tr*e, he sat on' the branch, while he smoked a farewell pipe, and then threw- himself off. The flax broke, but the tension tightened the noose round his, neck, ,and Chad wick .was . slowly strangled. The ground around the. body siloed that there must hn»e' been a pro* loiifisd sstraggla before death cams.,