Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 176, 20 November 1896, Page 3

Interprovincial News.

H -.ln-rt For.-yih. -"! th r, sustained a fract ii-" of a ihiifh by a drny accidi-nt at Hikui\ingi. Tli<- limit w:'.s amputated. but IVn'svth iiii-il in collapse. I•:t;11<■ lit";elv on lumiing ot Mon•:oiiui I>i-!i'ip I.eiiihau vias sin'roumleii bv r,O Catholic Maoris, whom he addressed, Father (1 rk-iiy and Monsignor -Macl'onald iutfrpreting. (si--hop (irimes also nddres.-ed them. Producing hymn-books, the Maoris sang mngniiiei-ntly. On reference being to the late I'r Mac Donald the native* wept. lVfore dispersing the Maoris knelt down and received the His-hop's blessing. The mystery surrounding the fate of the late .Mrs M'Ctmn has been at last solved. The body was found in the Waikato river about two miles below Narrow's bridge by Constable P.reman and Oeorge M'Cann. who brought it to Hamilton. The Rev. I*l. C. Lead, an evangelist of the Catholic Apo.4oiic Church, died suddenly at Wellington yesterday morning. He rose from bet I partly <;res.-ed. and wa!k( d from his bed-room into the kitchen, where he was heard to gasp and fall,and lie apparently died instantaneously owing, it is supposed, to failure of the heart's action. He hws conducted evangelistic services in various parts o[ the colony.