INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3008, 24 October 1891, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(bv telegraph—press association - . ) NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. General Booth arrived by steamer this morning from Auckland, and left by express train for Wellington. He was received nt the railway station by the Mayor and two hundred people. The General said lie hoped to live to see his social reform carried out. NELSON, Last Night. Mr G. Lightbnnd, one of Nelson's oldest settlers, died last evening after a long illness. Deceased took an active interest in establishing the leather industry, and was the first person to manufacture parchment in Nhw Zealand. Deceased assisted in establishing Methodism in Nelson CHRISTCHUKCH, Last Niuht. The annual meeting; of the Kaiapoi Wollen Co. was held this afternoon, when the recommeiidat'oi) of the diieetors to pay an ciyht per ceut dividend was adopted. The Chairman. Mr G. H. Klackwell, said thf v. ai's i.peiations had been more successful than any previous year. This was owing to the policy initiated two yeirs of reducing the stock in hand and nt m imif-ietui ing ton far ill advance of order-. and the eilicn-nt manigeinmit of Mr Oatti u, whom the directors rc-enuigd f m- a further term. LYTII'XTON, Last Night. Schmidt, tli . le-'i.'e of the lluhvav Hotel, committed .suicide by shooting himself in the left temple with arevulvet He got up at S.oO ami was about tinbar, and then went into the private sitting-room and lay 011 the sofa where hesliot himself. Decease i who was much depressed lately hail been sufferit.g from influenza, and was very low spt'rited Ho had been beard to say that he would shoot himself some time atro. but it w is never suspected that lie would do it. Hi leaves a wife and three children.