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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 75, 22 December 1891, Page 2

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(Received December 22, 10.10 a.m.) i ' ' ' WABHi'iiGTb^, /v De ! ceiniwr ||fe j In the event of, war breaking out witJT Chili the' United States' Government will purchase the steamers,. Zealandia, Australia, Manpoaa, 'and Alameda to act as tenders to the warships defending the , coast and to assist in the transport of troops. \ Mr Walt Whitman, poet, is in a critical condition. > Sydney, This Day. The Customs Bill, sanctioning ; the new duties, was introduced in,to the .House' if Assembly. '" ! , " ; ''.•'• j . < The House has passeda -motion affirming that no system of federation will b'.e accepted unless elections uaderj it are carried out 7 tin J the oiie " *m T aii 'piae vote principle. ■' : '■ 'I >•.-.: /I j .. 5 Auckland, '^Kisj Day. I Francis Hearling, aged SO^whWrf turn-, cock, in the employ of : the City Council,^ committecl: suicide by tying, .'hi^ hands and feet together and throwing" himselfinto the water, tying himself to the wharf steps at the same time. He was a native of Denmark, and hislaccountswere'considerably deficient; i ? - r '■ [ Masterion^ This Day. * The Wairafapa Daily 'spates '"the whejt crop around MaStefton, especially in Mataroa and Lower Maßaiai'!isi 'being destroyed in a wholesale manner by a; small black grub, a little pest which is-. not unlike a maggot in appearance! It attacks the wheat at the roots and i work's i its way up the stem nntil; it Lcoifiplet^s' the work of demolition; .' \ .' "" A j ; SDuirEDiWi This Day. ' At the City Court. Martin Taylor ojf ' Christchurob, pleaded, guilty ,to a charge; of promotifaKaCalcutta^sweep, and was' finei LlO andcosts, to";b ! epaid within 114 days, or. in default , one mpnth's.-hard'^^" bour in Lyttelipii oab)i'y - j