INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 81, 3 October 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION!. Auckland, October 2. Alexander Gillcspie, aged 30, em* ployed by Die Neill, herbalist, was found dead in bed. Verdict, death from overdose of morphia. Deceased had been drinking heavily and took a dose in that state. He was to hare been mar* ricd to»day. An elderly woman named Mary Ann Slater, who lived in Falcon street", Parnell, died suddenly last week. The woman was at her premises engaged in the act of sitting a hen upon eggs when she dropped dead, CiiHisTCHUßcn, October 2. Peter Coate, wharf laborer, while handling coal on the hulk Lota, shortly before five this afternoon, dropped dead. He leaves a widow and eight children. At a meeting of representatives of local bodies, to consider mutters in connection with the Midland Railway, it was de« cided to telegraph to the Premier strongly requesting his support to the report of the Public Accounts Committee, or such modification as can be arranged with the Company, to ensure the immediate prosecution of*the East and West Coast line. Dunedin. October 2. A fire broke out in premises in Cumber* land street, occupied by Massey and Coy., formerly Finlay and Murdoch, timber merchants. Insurance £1750 on ma< chinery. The loss is mainly limited to stock in the drying room and that building, and will probably not exceed .£'soo. Charles Harald Waltord, a licensed hawker, was fined 20s and costs, under the Offensive Publication Act, 1892, for distributing printed matter of an immoral nature. Wanoanoi, Thi» Day. Dr E. H. Marshall, who has been in practice for twenty years here, was committed for trial yesterday for an attempted indecent assault on a girl eleven years of age. ___ _