AUSTRALIAN.
(Pas Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) (Received 0.40 a.m., Feb. 13th.) THE WAIBORA. Sydney, Feb. 12. Sailed —Walhora for Wellington. SUSPECTED MURDER. The Rev. Mr Smith, pastor of the Australian Church, is missing. He has for some time past been in the habit of visiting the domain at night for the purpose of expressing sympathy with those resorting there. There are signs of a struggle, and as a stick and papers belonging to Mr Smith have been found, it is feared that he has been murdered. FLOODS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. The Clarence river is in flood, and parts of Grafton are inundated. It is feared that the crops in low-lying districts have been swept away, which means the loss of inndreds of thousands of pounds. total
Feb. 12. The Hinemos arrived at 6 30 this morning. The Governor and sui'e are on board. They will visit the oa-tl mine at Dennietoo tomorrow, and Mokihinui on Tuesday. WELLINGTON, Feb. 11. Mr Msckay of the Labour Bureau, is to visit Feildiog on Monday, and go over the State farm with Captain A O Turner, of the Survey Department, wi ? .h a view to commencing operations at an early d*ts. Dr Giles has sent in his report on the charges brought by. the Hon. \tr Mi'chelson in the House of Represent stiver last session against Mr John King, census enumerator cf Auckland, upon which Dr Giles recently sat as Boyal Oommi.-sibner. The report exonerates Mr King from'all charges brought sgaiast him. At a meeting of the council of the Wellington Typographical Society, the question of boys’ cheap labour cropped up. '1 ho general opinion was expressed th*t good workmanship was deteriorating from this cause It was accordingly resolved to instruct the Society’s delegates on the Trades Council to bring the matter before that body, and to suggest that the Government should be approeched on the suVject of the introduction of an Apprentices Act. The Hospital Trustsss have d -oiled to call for tenders for the erection of a separate building for typhoid patients, pending the building of a new wing. The Post's Masterton correspondent wires: “ Shocking revelations have been made here in connection with the milk supply of the town. It has been discovered that several children have been poisoned by pyratoxioon. The germs were developed in the milk, and Dr Hoekings says that something will have to be done at once to prevent putrid milk being supplied.” Fbb. 12. Mr W. F. Boydhonse, who started the Evening Press nine years ago, and who has been connected with the paper ever since, has left for the Woirarapa, where be has purchased a paper in Greytown. Last night he was presented by the staff of the Press with an illuminated framed address and a eilver salver, as a token of appreciation in bis various capacities, both as an employer and a fellow-worker. The gate money taken at the champion meeting yesterday was £249, said to be the record at these gatherings in New Zealand. OHBISTOHUEOH, Fes 12. A married woman named Margaret Thompson, aged 88, loft hor home at Bangiora at 9 o’clock on Friday night. She had been unwell for six weeks, and had been attended by a doctor. At 7 o’clock she put her children to bed, saying that she would be asleep all next day. She did not return, and her husband searched for her alone. Teeterday morning ehe was found drowned in & creek three-quarters of s mile from her borne. Doctor Olay ton, who attended her, considered that her state of mind warranted her husband in having someone to look after her, and told the husband so. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity, adding that the husband was in a measure to blame for not getting the neighbors to assist in the search for the deceased when ho found that she had left her home. ASEBUBION, Fbb. 12. Harvest is nearly finished. The work of last week was only interrupted by one shower, and moot of the grain has been secured in splendid order. The production will scarcely reach the average.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7067, 13 February 1893, Page 1
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