INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 95, 28 January 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

• _ (rEB UNITED PRFBS ASSOCIATION ) . Auckland, January 27. A bulk test made with 14c vet of Maritoto ore returned loa 14dwt of gold, valued at £2 16s per ounce. A fire hus broken nut in the Puhipuhi Forest to the n >rtb of Auckland, and the bush is reported to be in great danger. The Kakaharoa bush, belonging to the (Jnion Sash and Door Company, is also on fire, and great dest uction is certain unUss rain falls or th# wind changes. Wellington, January 21. The secretary of the Wellington Cricket Anflocmtion has received a letter from Melbourne statins; that it trill be impossible for Vernon's crioket team to visit New Zealand. A meeting of the Exhibition Commitsioners took place this afternoon, when it was resolved, That Sir J»me« Hector should send the following cablegram to the Becretary 1 of the Melbourne Exhibi tion: Public interest in the exhibition warrantet the Commissioners increaiinif application to 2O,t)00 feet of floor space, excludinjj fernery and .-art galleries. : A proclamation mine Gazette further prorogues Parliament to the 28th 1 of March. ■.-..,[ ,>■..■ i> :'-i'u;^. j-.-.- --' The man Dye, who has 1 bten misiing from bis lodgings ifor three «r fonr days, l)Ai turned np all right,. Hj>:behavior for some, time had beec.strapge,.. ■ „ Wb^tpoit, January 27. I At the Betident Magißrrate's Cburf this afitrnopn, a man narafeu: [Gardiner, charged . w ith ; shooting with ; iutent to kill , nt Birch Hill Station, Mjarlboroujjh, wai remanded to Nelson- " Oauabtt, January 27. A public trial of reapers and binder*, lindvr the auspices of the, I^prtb Olag< A. and P. Association, took place to-day. The £md and Gray took first with 100 point*, the McJornaiok neoond with 98 |iointi<» Wood third with U4 points, and Howard fourtb with 80 points. 811 tuachint'H «t're j-ntorfd, bul onlj t-Jie at/ova four came into owjapvt(riott.