INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 38, 14 August 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION). Mastetton, This Day. The Wairarapa Daily Times learns on good authority that Mr W. L. Ree3 his decided at the request of his family to give up politics. Wellington* August 13. Yesterday afternoon a collision took place in Adelaide road between a cart driven by a Chinese gardener named Lee Long, and an expressman named Dindle. In the row the Chinaman was badly worsted, and in defence drew a pocket knife and stabbed his assailant, John Matthews, in the neck, inflicting a wound half an inch deep, but not of a dangerous character. Lee Long, who was arrested, is in a very weak state. This Day. The Pauiatua suspension footbridge OTer the Mangatainoka river collapsed on Saturday afternoon owing to loft of one bank being washed away by the flood. Great damage has been done to private property through the river changing its course. The Property-tax Departments are bringing actions against persons failing to furnish correct returns at Oamaru, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch.and Inrercargill. At Nelson on Friday two persons were fined L 5 and LIO and costs A meeting was held this morning to consider the question of establishing an University College for the Central District of the Colony, embracing Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, Wanganui, and Wellington districts. Auckland, August 12. Railway communication is suspended between Pokeno and Mercer, owing to the Mangatawhiri Bridgo being deemed unsafe. This Day. Bishop Julius arrived by the Ruahine to-day. His health has greatly improved.