INTERPROVINCIAL.
[P*» Uxnso Puss Association.] MASTERTON, February 8. Thomas Murcott and Kate Alexander, charged connection with the alleged infanticide case, were committed for trial. Bail was allowed Murcott, himself in £2OO and two sureties of £l5O each, and the girl herself in £2OO and two sureties of £IOO each.
REEFTON, February 8. The Westland Trades and Labor Council resolved to ask the Government to place a royalty on gold, the proceeds to be applied to a sick and accident fund for miners. They also urge the appointment of a Legislative Councillor to represent West Coast miners. Other resolutions were adopted affirming the desirability of making rating on unimproved values compulsory, and of reducing the age for pensions to sixty years where persons have worked for ten years under ground. It was also recommended that persons incapacitated from earning their living should receive a pension equal to old age pensions. ASHBURTON, February 8. A fire last night destroyed a four-roomed cottage on the Wakanui road occupied by 8. Finlay, who is away with his wife. An invalid daughter was the first to discover the fire. Nothing was saved. There is an insurance on the noose for £l2O in the Alliance. .
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Evening Star, Issue 11677, 8 February 1902, Page 4
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199INTERPROVINCIAL. Evening Star, Issue 11677, 8 February 1902, Page 4
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