INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 82, 4 October 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

, (PEB PBEB9 ASSOCIATION). Cheistchuhch, October 3. A man named Noble, wanted by the Wellington police on a charge of perjury, ■ was arrested by Detectire O'Connor on board the Talune at Lyttelton to-day. He had taken & steerage ticket for Mel* 1 bourne, and was travelling under the mune of Robinson. On Monday afternoon two ladies who were on the beach at Kaiapoi saw the body of a man with a life belt round it floating in the «urf. Information w&a siren to police and a search made, but so far the bodj has not jet come ashore. Auckland, October 3. A girl named Nicholson attempted suicide by swallowing heads of matches. She is likely to recover. In the Onehunga school committee squabble, Bobort Smith, for assaulting a teacher, Ealph Duncan Stewart, was bound over to keep the peace and pay costs. The magistrate said the teacher must be protected uo matter how the committee wrangled among themselves. Wellington, This Day. Arrived, at 8 a.m. — The Tongariro, from London, via way ports. She left Fljmouth on August 19th, Teneriffe on 25th, Capetown September 10th, and Ho. Bart at 7 p.m on the 29th. Variable weather was experienced on the voyage, which was uneventful. It is only intended to proceed with one of the five informations preferred against the bankrupt Kirk in order to obviate the necessity of witnesses at a distance attending the Court more than once. The case will be heard this afternoon. In the Supreme Court Judge Richmond refused, with costs, a motion applied for by the natives to upset the title of the Tekapo Block.