PROVINCIAL NEWS
[united PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, October 16. The Colonial Treasurer has been officially informed that the amount offered for the loan was £2,090,000 the average price being £97 ss. Disappointment is felt at the result, which was expected to be better after announced that the loan had gone to one per cent, premium. The low price is attributed by Ministers to the New South Wales deficit. Christchurch, October 17, William Hosking, labourer, employed at Ripa Island fortifications, died last night from injuries received through a fall of earth on Thursday last, Dunedin, October 17. The police arrested at Clinton last night the woman Georgeson, who occupied a house at Oatnaru, where the child was found buried and whose child has disappeared.
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Kumara Times, Issue 3107, 18 October 1886, Page 2
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