INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 October 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PKR UNITKD PRKSS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, This Day. Gcorgp Duncan, nged IH, and William Leighton, his cou>in. while working at l)i-icknniking at Henderson's mill were buried alive by the fall of a bank of earth li feet high. Leighton was got out alive, but the other man Duncan was dead. The City Council have refused to take v poll of the. burgesses on the question of bringing into operation or otherwise the Contageous Diseases Act. At yesternight's Council, several Councillors expressed their opinion that legal proroedings should be taken again t a sn-callcl religions jjaper for priming an <jb--cene ' adevi-rtiseiiieat intended as a kit on the Act. fciir G. (rrey has promised .i fnrtlier gift of all Itis old manuscript to the Auckland Library. HvvKi.onc. This Day. John M'Pnrscll's house at K;:ituna Valley, near Mavelock, was biirnL to the ground at I. n'cl, x.-U this jn>ri(i n;x- The lire was occasioned by l.'io bu.'stmg of a kerosene 1.-nnp. The children were rescued, but the furniiure was all burnt before assist mice was at hand The building alone was insured for £15". DuvEDiN. This Diy. ' The store and dwelling house of Goo. 1 Bell, postmaster at Inch Clutha, was ■ burnt down to-day. Insured in Colonial I for I'DOU. Loss is estimated at £350. Ciims'raiUßCii, This Day. A gentle rain began last evening and 1 it is now falling steadily, with every appearance of continuance. It comes just at the right tiu;e, as farmers in some districts are already crying out for it.