INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 125, 25 November 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[Per Press Association] Napieb, November 24. This morning the ohildren of a settler at Petane named Taylor went some miles over the hills to their neighbours and reported that their father had cut their mother to piecea with a slasher. A force of police went out to find only that there' had been some quarrelling and threats, but no actual nssulfc. The woman sup* posed to hare been killed walked to town this afternoon. TVELtiNGTOtr, November 24. The Monowui with the British mails of November 3, left 'Frisco for Auckland on 17th, one day late. The Alameda, with the Colonial mails, reached 'Frisco yseterday, due date. Chbistchubch, November 25. A cargo of coal on board the s.s. Rosa* mond at Lyttleton caught fire this after* noon. The fire was extinguished before much damage was done. The late Colonel Lean was accorded a military funeral this afternoon, All the volunteer corps in North Canterbury took part, Donedin, November 24. A person against whom a prohibition ordor has been issued was to day fined £1 and 7s costs on a charge of obtaining liquor. Tbe caso against tho publican was adjourned. The Supreme Court was occupied to* day with a case the particulars of which were that Vaugham supposed to be on the point of death m 1892, conveyed LBBO to his married sister, but when he recovered and sought to get the property back she refused to give it up. Mr Justice Williams garo judgment for Vaugham with costs. Auckland, November 24. John McLean, a married man, while adjusting a belt on the pulley in Craig's wood cutting yard while the machinery was in motion, got his left hand caught and in the trying to save himself got his right hand caught nlso. The right arm was fractured and the left hand almost severed from the wrist beforo ho got freed from llio shafting.