INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 37, 12 August 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PEB PBEBB ASSOCIATION). DuNKDIN, AUKUSt 11. O'Reilly, barrister, appeared at ike City Court charged with drunkenness and attempting to tire in King street at the police. He claimed he was a descendant of the Irish Kings, and be* hared so extraordinary that the Bench remanded him for medical examination. Auckland, August 11. Floods are still doing damage in the Waikato. It is proposed to utilise the balance of the Queensland relief fund, amounting to over £*200, if the subscribers, consent in relieving the flooded out Waikato Bottlers. Inspector Hickson baa reported to the Government, concerning alleged deaths through tho Maori tohunga in the North, that the circumstances have been oxag geratod. As certain deaths were alleged to huve taken place through the treatment adopted, the tohunga has promised to abstam from any further treatment of patients, and the natives have promised to report to the police an; cases of malpractice which may come to their knowjodge. Blenheim, This Day. The body of tho young man Dennis O'Leary, who was drowned in the Awatere river on Wednesday, was recovered yesterday. The inquest was held to- day, when tho verdict was " accidentally drowned." The jury added a rider, That this jury do now pnss most emphatically a yote of censure on tho Government in not having long ago had the Awatcro bridged; that tho coroner should point out that this is the only river of large size between here and Canterbury nnbridged, and that tho jury consider that Govornment is morally responsible for every life lost in the river from drowning. CnßisTciiußcn, August 11. At a meeting" of the Amateur Athletic Association to-night, it was decided, in reply to the letter from the New South Walos Association, to send two delegates to the conference, which is to be held in Melbourne at an early date, to discuss matters in regard to sending an Australasian team of athletics to compete at a I'außritauuic athletic gathering.