INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1255, 4 June 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[per press association.]

Auckland, June S. Fully 300 bootmakers are out of work. By tho new agreement only journeymen and apprentices are recognised, so tiiat all the improvers are thrown out of work. Wanganui, Juno 3. Word has reached Wang mm that Messrs iSteveus and Butler, the Government Land Uurchaso Commissioners, have been successful in receiving signature! for Waimariro block. They have gone as far as Oaumarunui, and find no ditlimlty in effecting sales. It was ruinoun d they were to be shot if they persisted in passing Manganui. -tejjao, but this was without tho least foundations.

Wellington, Juno 3. The amended regulations for the village special settlements on tho perpetual lease system are gazetted.

The Gazette notifies the appointment of 0. H. Reeves as Registrar of Marriages, Births and Deaths at West Oxford, the lion W. Rolloston as School Commissioner for the Canterbury district. The appointment of the Hon. W. H, Reynolds as a member of the Executive Council is gazetted.

Dunedin, Jane 3. Charles Miller, expressman, who was injured by the alone from the blast in Dowling street, has served a writ on the Corporation, claiming £503 damages. At a meeting of the policy-holders in the Industrial Branch of the Government Association, it was resolved to' petition the Government recommending the closing of the Branch here, and the return of the money in full.

The class prize lists of tho Edinburgh University have been received, and show that tho students from the Utago Medical School h»ve gained dis’iuciion. K E. Barnett (Wellington) and John Somerville (Dunedin) take three medals, both passing the second professional examination. F. H. Jolfooat (Dunedin) ta-s.es two medals ; P. A. Lindsay and W A. FlemIng take first class honors In Senior Surgery and Junior Practice of Physics ; tl. M. Inglis (Timnra) takes a medal and first place in natural history, and firstclass honors in chemistry and anatomy. F. Turby King (Taranaki) and F. H. Jeffcoat are both considered as having an excellent chance of gaining for the year tho highest distinction the school can give.

The Australia, the latest addition to the Union Company’s fleet, arrived this afternoon, She is to be pat in the coasting trade.