INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 115, 9 March 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, March 5. Sir George Grey and Dr Campbell were passengers to the South per Rotorua yesterday. Leckie, the well -known footballer, won a 20 mile bycicle road race on Saturday, in 1 hour 55 minutes. There were six starters. The master and mates of the schooner Mnzeppa and brigantine Hansom, wrecked in the Soutb Sea Islands several months ago, arrived from Honolulu by the Alameda. Chbistchubch. March 6. Eliza Fice, wife of Thomas Fine, formerly an Hotelkeeper here, dropped dead in her house at Hingsland this morn ng. Wellington, This Day. Mr Callis has settled his claim against the Government, for overtime on the Exhibition, privately. Mr Ballnnco intends, next session, to introduce a Bill appropriating 2000 acr-2 in various parts of the North Inland for landless Maoris. The Government are thinking of introducing chamois. Dr Yon Hnast will inako enquiriex when at Home as to their cut and the feasibility of the project. The neighbouring Colonies have been communicated with and have raised no objection. Their content was necessary as chamois are liible to cattle disease. The Hen. Mr Lnrnach, Messrs J.E. Fitzgerald and H. K. McDonald, judges appointed (• consider the merits of Essays supplied in connection with the N.Z ! Industrial Exhibition, have selected the Ktsays bearing following mott>es — " Si Sit Prudentia," " Press Onward." and "Nunqium D>rraio." although it has not yet been decided who will get first, second, or third prize.