INTERPRO VINCIAL NEWS
(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). Dunkdin, March 29. Mr Lee Smith has definitely announced himself as a Ministerial candidate for Bruce. Wellington, March 29. The sale of city properties on bohalf of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Compauy realised good prices. In several instances, however, the reserve was not readied, and the property withdrawn The regulations under the " Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891," appear in the Gazette to-night, Mr Hanlon. Official Instructor in Fruit Culture, lias just returned from a visit of inspection of the district extending from here to Palmerston, via the West Coast, thence to Woodville and hack via Waira rapu. Ho reports tbit the district gene> rally, with the exception of Featherston. is favourable to fruit growing, but regrets that many of the orchards show neglect, and the ravages of scaly blight are apparent. Pauibrston Nokth, March 29. A fatal accident occurred at the Forty Mile Bush this morninij. A man nimed Charles Stewart, working for Messrs Williams Bros., contractors, on the Mangaone Road, about 15 miles from Pahiatua, was working in a cutting, when a large boulder that was in the face of the cutting rolled on him. He was knocked to pieces, his entrails bein^ scattered about the ground. The man is not known to have any friends in the neighbourhood. Invebcargill, March 3D, An old resident of Invercar<»ill, now in business in Melbourne, writing to a friend hero says : — " I never had a worse time of it than during the last twelve months. No money, and no business is doing, Melbourne is in a frightful state, com' mercially, financially, and morally. In fact the bottom has completely dropped out of the country." Auckland, March 30. The dend body of a woman was found at the water's edge on Cheltenham bpach, Devonport. to-day, having evidently been washed ashore by the sea. The remaius have not been identified, and nothing is yet known as to how the woman came by her death.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 117, 31 March 1892, Page 2
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330INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 117, 31 March 1892, Page 2
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