PROVINCIAL NEWS
[united press association.] Christchurch, March 8. Frederick H. Digby, formerly secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club and a prominent sporting journalist, is dead, aged 45. He had been an inmate of Sunnyaide Lunatic Asylum for four years. Palmerston North, March 8, George Dundas, surveyor, shot himself through the left breast last evening with a breach-loading gun charged with shot. Death must have been instantaneous, the aorta being swerved and part of the substance of the left lung blown away. The deed was committed in deceased’s bedroom in his brother’s residence. Deceased had been suffering from melancholy, and at the inquest to-day a verdict of temporary insanity was returned. Napier, March 8. Mr Moore, chemist, at Waipawa, was convicted to-day in the Resident Magistrate’s Court of prescribing medicine and acting as a medical practitioner, and fined £lO and costs. Notice of appeal was given. The Harbor Board to-day fired eight tons of powder in a mine on Bluff Cliff to make room for the works in connec tion with the breakwater. Fifty thousand tons of rock and earth was displaced by the explosion, which caused a vibration like that produced by an earthquake. Nelson, March 7. Messrs White’s sawmills in Pigeon Valley were destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The engine was saved, but all the other plant, including a stack containing 10,000 feet of timber, was burnt. There were no insurances. The Government steamer Stella, with white fish from America, arrived at six. The ova has not yet been examined. Auckland, March 8. Sir George Grey and Dr. Campbell were passengers to the South per Rotorua yesterday, Leckie, the well-known footballer, won a 20-mile bicycle road race on Saturday in 1 hour 55 minutes. There were six starters. The Rev. D. J. Hamer, Melbourne, died last evening at Rotorua. The Rotorua railway was to-day opened as far as Oxford. This enables the journey from Auckland to the Hot Lakes to be easily accomplished in one day.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2920, 9 March 1886, Page 2
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