INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 75, 26 September 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NE WS

(PF.tt PUV.B3 ASSOCIATION.) CuHjsTciiunpn, September U5. At a meeting of j-jio Charitable Aid Board to-day tjio C}ja}rmaii repprted that tho numbor of rpc-ipients was jn excess of last month's, also of the coi> responding month's in 18i)2. GisimiiNK. September %b. William Scott Greene, Licensed Interpreter, is missing ami supposed to have been drowned in the Waipu river, Tuparoa. A search party discovered bis horee, saddle, aud bridle, on the bank.

The river was in flood when Greene attempted to cross it, and he could not swim. Dunkdin, September 25. At the inquest on Kate Birley, the jury returned a verdict that she committed suicide, but there was no evidence to show her state of mind. Thd premises of Scott Bros., Manor * riace, were entered between Saturday and f this morning, and iJOlbs of tobacco stolen, i Tlio burglars, who picked out the Bide * lock, could not get into the ofiice. r - For the horse parndo to-morrow, 20 • Clydesdales, 9 thoroughbreds, 12 carriage ' and trotting, and 2 ponies have been ( entered. \ Four of tho Salvationists who wero ' serving sentences for breaches of the Mil- ( tou byo-laws were liberated to-day, and ' wcro received with a groat demonstration. In the evoning tho looal corps paraded l tho stroots, tho procession being headod ' by four men drossed in imitation prison « garb. Tho Army aro now sending a ■ laseio to Milton. < Wellington, This Day. Coyne was committed for trial for stabbing Woodward with ft bayonet on Sunday morning. Both Woodward and Staples, who was with him, strenuously denied they were the men who assaulted Coyno. That the latter had been badly handled by someone there can bo no doubt, as he appeared with a fearful eye. .Napier, This Day. John Ronch, wharf labourer, agod 40, was fount! drowned in the harbor this morning. Auckland, September 25. An old colonist died yesterday, Father B. Ruy, Chairman of the Board of Education, aged 93