INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 85, 5 January 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PEB UNITED PRFBB ASSOCIATION ) Welxington, This Day. Operations for the restoration of the general post office will he set on foot upon the return of the Minister of Works to Wellington. The Governor, accompanedhy his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Fortesone, will proceed to Sydney by the Nelson about the 16th, for the purpose of attending the Australian centenary celebrations. No members of the Government will be present owing to urgent business to be transacted here. Greymouth, This Day. The barquentine Jasper, from Lyttelton, will load a cargo of coal for Mauritius. This will be the first cargo shipped direct for a foreign port. A bazaar opened for several days past, m aid of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Ohurch, has cleared about £700. .The harbor board during the year just closed has expended slightly over £76,080 , Two young lads met with rather a serious, accident at the Kaita Picnic. Philip "Scoglund fell out of a swinging boat, and M. Morassey fell but of the rigging of the Bio while witnessing the regatta, and split his skull. He would have been killed, but that he struck a boy named Martin on the shoulder and back, injuring him badly. . * . Invebcabgill. January 3. A boy named Spencer was killed en the Bluff line yesterday. His hat blew off, and it i» said that at the instigation of his companions, he leapt from the train to recover it, breaking his neck. Bu»Ei>Tsr, January 4. About 2588 persons attended the third day's Caledonian Sports. The middle weight Border wrestling was won by Tiffen. J.Dunn second. The consolation .wrestling fell to Sonta*. The steeple* chase was won by Gilchrist. Nrmox, January 4. The first meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Kducattonal Institute was he'd in the hall of the Girls' College to* day. The President (Mr J. H. Harkness) delivered aa address, for which he received a very hearty vote of thanks. The meeting was a full one, and various committees were appointed to report on matter b of interest. Several of the mem* berß of the Council are being entertained by Miss Edgar, M.A.,*t the College. AtrcKXAND, January 4. The five warships now in port will pro» bably sail to»morrow for Wellington, and to»day the police were kept busy in arresting straggling seamen belonging to the squadron. - Hokitika, January 4. ' The Bank of New Zealand shipped their Christmas gold buyings — {5182 oz, valued at L 24.727. A great number of beach and river ■ leases for working by the Ball or Wiellman dredger are taken up, there feeing two or three every week. The first lease (Parks) of the Weilman dredger will be • working next week. : ; , Haweba, January 4. This morning a man named Clemens was beinfc lowered down a well, when the aparatus broke, and he was precipitated a distance of about 40ft. He miracu* ■> lously escaped comparatively uninjured, j but was shaken, bruised, and sustained a ,i fracture to one ankle. j Mrs Mathieson, while being driven -„ from Waverley to Stratford, suffered a Hunstroke at Hawera to-day. Masterton, 'January 4. 1 Charles Hamilton, arrested oti a charge ] of fraudulently drnwingtiiO on a fictitious cheque, has been remaodctl till fcamorrow 1 . , , " \ A