INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 142, 7 June 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PEB ONITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION ) Chh IBTCHUHCH, June 5, Captain Cotton* 24 hours' walk against Joe Scott, at Tuatu- street Hall, was concluded at 10 o'clock last night, when Captain Cottoa did 119 miles 1 lap, including his handicap allowance of 10 miles. Scott walked 117 miles 6 laps. 20u0 people witnessed the finish. Napieb, June 4. Margaret Nicholls, a married woman, was landed from the Wairoa last night, and conveyed to the Hospital in a cabOu alighting she fell dead. She had been suffering for four months from rhematism, without medical attendance. A Maori, while drunk, was thrown from his horso yesterday and instantly killod. i houias Powdrell, an old settler of 27 years' standing, died yesterday, aged 81. Timabv, June, 4 At a house near Waimate yesterday, Julia Corcoran, an old woman of 87, was accidently burned to death. Nobmanby, This Day. A serious fire occurred at fire o'clock this morning, when Spaldiig's Club Hotel was burnt down. The fire broke out in the kitchen, and the whole baildwas consumed in about an hour. The Union Bank building was seriously, and the Post Office slightly damaged. Everything was saved from the Post and Telegraph Offices. It will take half an hour to fix up instruments, &c, and resume business at the Telegraph Office. Insurance on the hotel building, is jBd'OO, and furniture £300, both in the Phoenix. The postmaster's farniture £225 in the same office. All the postmaster's furniiure was saved, and the hotel furniture burnt. Auckland, June 6. Tn the glove contest on Saturday night James Martin acted as second to Mat* thews while Pettenirell, of Wellington, acted in a like capacity to Richardson. Matthews was declared the winner. The gate money amounted to over LIOO. Wellington, This Day. The Salvation Army intend to celebrate the Jubilee by giving a dinner to one thousand poor children. It is understood lh:it W. T. Glasgow, nt present eliief clerk in the Customs Department, will be appointees to fill the position of Secretary, rendered vacant by W. Seed retiring on a pension. c