INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
(FKB FBESB ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, December 17. Mr Jellicoe has been retained for the defendants in the libel action brought by Mr H. D. Bell, M.H.R., against the proprietors of Fair Play. The trial will take place in the Supreme Court in February next. A deoree absolute was granted by the Chief Justice to-day in the divorce case of Ward v Ward. His Honor also made an order that Mrs Ward, the petitioner, should have the custody of the child of tbe marriage. Willian Fraser, aged nineteen, a printer employed by Mossrs Harding and Co., was drowned in a dam in the Kaiwarra stream yesterday afternoon. He, with others, was bathina when he suddenly sank before assistance could reach him. The body was recovered within an hour. All attempts to resuscitate proved fruitless. Deceased parents reside in Marton, Mr George White, a retired Melbourne hotelkeeper, who with his wife was visit* ing New Zealand for the beoefit of his health, died suddenly in the Royal Oak Hotel this morning. The causo of death wes heart disease Auckland, December 18. On tbe voyage of the Carradale irom Japan, tbe coal in the starboard bunkers spontaneously ignited on two occasions The bunkers were flooded, extinguishing the outbreak.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 194, 18 December 1893, Page 2
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206INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 194, 18 December 1893, Page 2
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