INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 14, 19 July 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

i ; ♦— — - „--.:■ : " (FEB UNITED PRIBS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, This Day. A fire broke out in Johnston's store at Otahuhu at 530 a.m. to-day. The store' was totally destroyed, alao Johnston's dwelling house adjoining. Jackson's butchery, and the Post and Telegraph office were also burned. The telegraph instruments were saved. Insurances not yet ascertained. - : . Another conflict has arisen between the Northern s.s. Company and the Seamens' Union ; the Company has given notiae of a reduction of wages and no overtime. The Seamens' Union resolved to fight the Company, and a general strike is anticipated. Dunkdin, July 18. Thomas Bobinson, formerly of the army, died suddenly last night. He had been of intemperate habits. . . Wellionton, Thin Day. The Ed uent ion-' Department has received a letter from the A«ent»General, enclosing prospectus of Colonial Scholarships, proposed to have been founded br the Oxford Military College. Two scholarships of LSO and L 25 respectively, will be offered in each ef the principal colonies, finable for three years. Competitors to be between the ages of 14 and 16 .\enrn. If the proposal should be.ap* s proved in the Colony, the College will ask the Universities of New Zealand and OUgo whether they would be willing to Conduct the examination of New Zealand candidates.