INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 34, 9 August 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS-

(PER PBEB3 ASSOCIATION). AtTCKLAND, AuRUSt 8. The floods have so far subsided in the Waikato as to allow of trains getting to Huntlej. Mary Ann Glover, wife of W. Glover, canvasser, swallowed matches, and bad to be sent to the hospital. She stated she swallowed two small boxes owing to worry. Tho Auckland Amateur Athletic Club has voted XlO to the fund for sending a team to the Australasian Championship Meeting, aud has also decided to support the alteration of rules proposed by the Wellington Club. Chbistchubch, August 8. At the Resident Magistrate's Court today, Ernest Dyer, 18, was charged with the larceny of goods to the value of £11 2s, the property of E. Sanstein, his euaployer. Thomas Vangioni, 19, nnd William Collins, 18, were charged with receiving the goods knowing them to have been stolen. All the accused were committed for trial. At the inquest on Ellen Sheehy, who died suddenly at Christchurehon Monday, the evidence showed that death was caused by au overdose of sleepiui;-dre.u«;Ut. Gisdobke, Thin Day. Robert George Begley, for horae stealing, received five years. Dunkdijt, August 8. John Anderson, atokor, aged 40 years, a married man with seven children, droppod dead from heart disease while work* ing as stoker at the city gasworks this morning. Mastebton, August 8. Twelve thousand brown trout were forwardod from tho Mastorton hatcheries to Hawke's Bay yesterday, and ten thousand to Poverty Bay this morning. Invkbcaboill, Augusts. At a meeting of electors last night it was resolved to found a fund to be used la support of a candidate for tho Inyercargiil seat at tho general elections who will deal justly, from the meeting's point of view, with the licensing interests, Kkkfton, August 8. Mrs Mitchell, wife of Mr J. Mitchell, mail contractor for the Nelson, Westport. and Reefton overland mail, died this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Sh«3 was one of the victims of the late coach accident at the Lyell, and was the worst injured of the party of passengers. A few days ago she was brought trom Lyell to the lleefton Hospital, whore she has been under the care of Dr Whitton. Gkkvmouth, August 8. Mr C. Napier Bell has been appointed by the Minister for Public Works, New South Wales, one of the commission to enquire into and report on the merit of the international system of sewage precipitation, and tbe manufacture of sewage sludge into patent manure, as against a sewage farm lor the deposit of sewage and tho drainage of the city of Parrnmatta. Wellington, This Day. It. B. Adams has been arrested at Loym uu a charge of forgery at Hawera.