INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 83, 3 January 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

- - - . -. —+. . (PER PBESS ASSOCIATION). Wellington, This Day. John Willet, a shoemaker, aged 37, single, attempted to commit suicide last night by cutting his throat with a knife. He had been drinking till Christmas, when he donned the blue ribbon. He had twice before attempted suicide and had been in the asylum for two years. He lies in a critical state in the hospital. Pout Chalmers, January 2, Arrived — Canterbury, ship— Captain Cuthbert, 78 days from Glasgow. On December 29, A. A. Wakoly, ordinary seaman, while coming down after loosing the foro royal, fell overboard. A lifebuoy was thrown and the ship hove to. A boat was lowered, but nothing was seen of him. At the time a tremendous sea was running and the vessel was going at ten kuots an hour. Auckland, January 2. At the Sunday school picnic at Potter's Paddock to day a boy 10 years old, named Bruce, son of the shipping reporter on the New Zealand Herald, was killed by a tank falling on him. Chuistchvbch, January 2. 13ishop Julius will leave for Wellington to morrow to catch the Doric in order to proceed to England. Ho intends to be absent six months. Napieb, This Day. A middle-aged Maori chief, Karera, residing at Omahu, in a tit of jealousy fired a reyolver thrice at his wife and missed each time. The police have gone out to arrest uiia.