INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 32, 1 September 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

■ .-.■■. i ;..• -■ ■_ -^ ■■■■--< ■_ ' - _ 1 - (PEH UNITBi> : PRWSS" ASSOCIATION.) i .' i =;.■•. TutAKtT.= September 1. 'AsA&i a meeting of "the' South.' Canterbury Joqkey Club last night the;,terms of amaU : gamation from, the Timaru .Bacing. Club were accepted, and the 'clubs, as now combined, will hold' their first meeting in ' October next.' : ' , '■/' "■'■• i ; Dunedin, Au'gfasl 31. Scott won the 24 hours' walking 1 match against Captain Cotton. ; :■-■- '■ The Benevolent . Committee hare adopted , a resolution to try the «xperi> nient of m nking : ap pli cap U\ ■ for; .«uf door, , relief wort' for" the . giren. Pay to be at the rate of lis'iper day., In the telegraphic chess match between Dunedin and Inrertmnjill, the'four'unfinished games were referred to Mr Mtowat, who has declared three of them! a draw a iid one a win for Invercargill., This makes the Result <<s£ tlie game a 'draw, each sidf scoi-itfg'tHree wins. \' " ■ TA certificate o{ the Royal Humane Society of Australui_was,_pub f licly presented this afternoon, by the* iiayor, | to Mr J).Cr. Stepßeß, who was instrument-' al "^in restoring animation, after two hours' continuo 4 us work, m the casej of Fergnsson, ten years of age.'The girl's father and fire other children were drowne^t>n the occasion. ' .-. - , " Auckland. August 31. - . "The annual meeting of the New Zea* land Frozen Meat Company was-hwld, wjiemthegreport'shjowefigai^ss' qn ttifi year*s^ tyerafconsio&££Blgffj££a Id, and it was "decided" to reofuce the valiia lions' of 'the' ceinpahy's properties by ,£34,535. «^ The first signs of a rush to the scenes of the new find of gold &t Hikutaia h^ve appeared, several parties of men w,ho have. bee,n .working the, gum diggings in' the 5 neighbourhood of 'Auckland haying gone to Cordmahder,aha"th'e > adjacent locality within the last lew days.!- » f | fc -» The Seamens' Union have secured three; steamers, two from Australia, and one - from jWe^ingtofl, to ifrtfn? tn^opprfsWon! to Northern 5.5. Company. r - They axe 6x--\ pected to start running next .week-. . ; T | '.'.'. ;; '* "Wanoanui, This Uayi ' Henry- Churtpn, one, of the, oldest residents, idied'thw ' ifabriiing.' He" watf the founder of the college for the education of. theMaories, and -some years ago,! a£ the, time, of war.^ie was yiristrumerital ;iif ; procuring fi^oni the House of pommons,' compensation. 'for losses caused to settlefs' .by the Maoris., („^ , • „-r t .^r I ' ' ' ■•■'■- WBLtiNGTON, This Day.; •t It is estimated there are 1200 children^ m Wellington who do not attend school, .andlthero ia ho accommodation^ for 'them. More schools are badly needed, especially in |h§; Te : Arp^ Xfistrict, ,ib)it \ the )Boa;rd have no, , f jindf .^ ,< A ; was •• appointed" to deal with 'the qujestion, and,report iii ! a'fuJjure nieetingl "' ' ' i The Shaw Sayill and Albion Company ■LionWd/ bia»e^cibled to tti'eir agents that th^Mratef.ofMreiiiht on all goods frpin f London to the Colony by their sailing^ ! vessels is red ueed- to 20» per" ton"; T= - jr :'^