INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 151, 16 June 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PER TTNITBD PEESS ASSOCIATION. I Gekymottth, June 15, Jas. Y'nmsr," a l>a er, who was bamt rmt on Friday last, is missing. • He/hus net been seen since 12 last night after put ling a p'ltch of bread in the ovea, widen he had .rebuilt. Search parties are out over the neighbourhood. New Plymouth, This Day. Sir GeoTge Grey arrived from Auckland this morning and is a passenger by. express train for Wellington. W Ellington, This Day. At the Opposition causus this morning Mr Bryce was unanimously elected leader. Auckland, June 13. News from Evji reports a disastrous fire at Suva on the 2 1st May. The damage is estimated at £30,000. The entire block of buildings occupied by the leading commercial men of the town -was destroyed With their .valuable stocks. The insurance are — Hamburg, and Magdeburg, £1400 ; New Zealand, £1525 ; Imperial, £820 ; Northern, £1000 ; South British, £160 ; Hanseutic, £2425 ; Transatlantic, £3400. The unsecured losses are about £20,000. Jane 15. John Burke, an inmate of the Cost ley Home, on whose behalf Lord Onslow used his good offices to procure Dr Koch's tuberculine, has died.' When the oper» ation was performed little hope of success was felt, as Burke was in an advanced state of consumption. The post m jrtein examination showed that both lungs had practically gone. No truce of either bene* ficial or ill effects could be noticed as re» suiting from the use of the tuberculme. . Thames, June 15. I A woman named Ellen Davis and a young man named Alfred Clark died sud» I denly yesterday. Wansanui, June 15. A man named Edward Sheehan «ras arrested this afternoon on a charge of .stabbing a boy named Dignan. Both were working in a gravel pit. The wound is not severe. Bokitika, June 15. A Chinese miner, Ah Ken, was killed in his claim at Ballarat Hill, Strafford, this morning. A fall of earth struck and knocked him into a tail race, breaking nis neck and one leg. <