INTERPROVINCIAL.
[PRKSS AGENCY.] ' Christchurch, Thursday. The farmers here are taking active measures to cope with the sparrow nuisance, and meetings have been held in various country districts to devise means to kill the birds. Poisoned wheat is most geuerally adopted. The Charitable Aid Board having arranged satisfactorily with the Government, have now settled down to active work. A shocking affair occurred at Oxford yesterday. Shortly before noon, a house in the bush was observed to be on fire and when a neighbor reached the spot he found Mrs Hoff, the wife of a German, who occupied the cottage, lying on the ground insensible with a fearful gash in her head. She was conveyed to the township, but soon after expired. Hoff was arrested during the afternoon. He said during a quarrel his wife hit him in the face, when he struck her on the head with a tomahawk. He seemed quite unconcerned at the result of the affair. It is supposed that after striking his wife Hoff set fire to the cottage. Poiit Chalmers, Tuesday Arrived: Barque Alir, 92 days from Glasgow with UGO tons of cargo for Dunedin and Bluff, and 13 passengers.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 164, 9 July 1878, Page 2
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194INTERPROVINCIAL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 164, 9 July 1878, Page 2
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