INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IXI, Issue 21, 4 August 1887, Page 2

INTERPRO VINCI AL NEWS

/PEB UKITED PRITBB ASIOCI ATIOK. ) ' ';.:';■ .: : .'A\ ." ■■'.:■■: SBtKSMKIMi AugUftt 2. Thcton school affairs have Wen in an unnatisfaetory condition for some time past. ..At, the .meeting of the Education Board' UNday ttie resignation of three t»acher»jr ere. sent , jn and/accepted., and ar fourth leuclier' has signified ncr Jintention pfW>t going back^to the school.' 1 " It was resolved to &&t ] caliing tor fresh application* till the committee's wjiahet ihave ; been ! a^crftajiied; :; '. ' ! ' '.''' \ ' ■: i ' ■ Thoniai Hart Warren; on'a charge of criminal I j aWtul )ihg his' daughter, aged fourteen, has been remanded 'till Vl^?4nesday: The accna^, wHol is a coinposi* tor, offered no bail \". .' ; WACViAI^v WpoDviitK/Aiigmrtl. ; j An attempt was made laist night, to • burn down^Gilbert^ Tempe'ran'ce r Hbtel here by setting fffeto an onthpnie. The fir*' was fortnnai*ly discovered before it gist fair; hdld of -the' place, and eztingoUhed.. Two men have been arrested OB'iuspicioH, and have been remanded till Thursday. The burning bf Gfilbert's, Hotel would have iaTolyed the destruction of at least five other shops. DITNBpiM, August 3. i A- boxing matehhai been arranged beltween W. Murphy, the light weight chimpidn, ; and ' E. Burgess; of Inverpar* gill, for £60. ; A young man named John Smith has been drowned at lialce Walcatipu. ! The anniversary of Jhe foundation of the Boys High School was, kept .to.day by thepast and' present pupils playing a football match against a. team,put in the field by the ttugby TJnionV ' The school won^by 7;po>nts to 2^. In the. evening a dinner was held, 1 which was' largely at-i tended,; -.>^'?-' ; -s : '-- 1 ■■-■ '-'■ ''■'"■ *' i Yung Lee was fined LS or six mouths: imprisonment for receiring 76 otgars from . the • steamer Wbosufig, without paying: duty. The (Collector of Customs stated the Ohiaese were in constant habit of smuggling jfrom.GhiiJfße vessels coming here. ( , ;..»( ' .... ■, y.-. .. . „.,,, WsttTNOToy, August 3. ; A Scandinavian named M jers, while: out scooting at Greytown yesterday; meti with an 'accident owing to the' gun ex [ ploding, ; which shattered his arm to such; an> extent that it had to be amputated. fA labourer named , Madden met with ; an) accident at Kaitoki on, J£on4ay, which nscenoitated the amputation of .his leg. He was working at a cutting onj the" "railway iine, when the bank gave; way, and the earth falling upon him, , broke his le*. v . [ This t)*y. The Boyal Humane Society of AustraiHs,k»P fprM»fded to the Government one; silver and nineteen -bronze medals, and 'seveil certificates (for distribution to deserving re.<?!pient9; in this colony. J: Mr Matkell ha*_. compiled a book dealing jwith -the , inject rpests, of New Zealand, I winch Has* been printed by Government, and 2000 copies are now ready. A number ha?© been sent to the Agricultural authorities, apd the rest will; be gold at five shillings 'per; rolume. work is admirably illustrated with plates •xecated'at Wanganui. , ''/ The Premier learei for the South tomorrow;^'' ■ '>■■■'■■'-' ■••' -■'■'•• - ! -- '- ;m ; Atjcklxnd, August ' 3. - Mr CTdy. at the Gliariiable Aid Board meeting yesterday, nsked .if it. were true an Auckland bank manager's, grandmother was in receipt of charitable aid. Ths reply was that hja ragther.:m;liivi was in.rec^ipt^jof relief. He, ; ihcn asked if the urand mother of a rising Auckland j solicitpr, w^s 7 , receiving, aid, and,, jras ! atfswereaCin^llieoffir^a(ive. ; |/ /r .' ir J ' * ' , ;>.'• ' M xsTtßTOiflThis Pay . ..A man named James Stevenson was lulled by a-^irfee 1 fWUiti^&ti • iiimV ■ > s■--°':l5 ■--°' :1