INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2284, 19 November 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(FEU PBBBB ASSOCIATION.) "Wellington, November 18Tb. Eduoallcm Department have procured specimens of peumanehip, drawing, needlework, mapping etc, from varloui Native cohoola In the North and South lilanda, which will be forwarded to the Dunedin Exhibition by steamer leaving hers this afternoon. Tho oolleotlon la a large one, and como excellent work is shown. Greymouth, November 18. A large buah fire, ruglng ou each aide of the main road betwoeo O.lkghan's oreek and Ahttura, burnt a number of navvlea tents and a houßO known aa Ncffl 'a reoently extensively repaired. The Insurance la unknown. Tbe weather m the Grey Valley haa been very dry for the laat oouplo of months, and lt baa been thehotteat spring known for yeara. Dunedin, November 18. Traffio through the Purakenul tunnel, whioh haa been constructed to avoid the cliffs, will oommenoe to-day, The tunnel ia only 300 yarda In length, and for one* third of Its dlaianoe passes through solid rook. For the examination for University degrees, whioh began here to-day, there are sixty-eight candidates, ton of whom are ladles. Tvicko are to bo formed to the Sutherland Falls, and it la expeoted the one from Mllford Sound will be finished early In January. A effort Is being made to form a Trades and Labor Ooucoll here, acd at a meeting this evening, at whlah eleven trades wero represented, rules were adopted for aubmlislon to the vacionn "Unions.