INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 123, 2 April 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

|_PEB UNITEO PR.KB 3 ASSOCIATION. Wellington, April 1. ■ During tl|e passage of the ship Halcione from London one of brew, named W. Sims, while bending the fnrstnl fell overboard., Oyving to the heavy weather prevailing at the time, they were not able to pick him up. ' ' '' ' i'he' statement that a life insrarnnce company had issued a policj bnTe Whiti's life is incorrect. > ' • ;• , /• ' The Government are considering the advisability of cancelling all commiisioris at present held in the militia, and issuing rfWw list whicji- would' comprise . several fresh; names. >^ a , % • It is understood that "negoliations are Tiew to arranging a ■culling nlatcn bei-jr«% Hearn, of Wellington, and Braithwaite, of Wanganui. It ia proposed to row a three- mite race,, the champion conceding half »a-mile. > . --. •, . t Dunedin, This I>ay. ; .. Eady Evelyn will be an absentee from the Christchurch meeting. "'■ 8. H. J*nkinson, sub-editor of the Daily Times, has received the appointment of sub-editor of the Melbourne Argus. Auckland, April 1. MrVickerman, «ftke Public Works Department, commenced to-day to peg off a ?6ad leading from the entrapce to the North Head reserve to the sites of the batteries proposed to be erected on the promontory. Fifty navvies are to to put on to-ni©rrow. A large concrete magazine is to be erected. The road is to be completed in' ten days;