INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 97, 17 March 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PBR ÜBITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ■■'■-• Dunkdin, March 15. y Th« Star says that among the pohee changes, Inspector Broham, of Timara, goes to Auckland, nee Inspector Shear* man, retired;' It is proposed to anialga* mate the Oamaru and Timara' districts under Inspector (Thompson, who will have his headquarters at Oamaru; but his superrision will extend from the Bangitata, on the North, to I'almerston and Mount Bees, on the South. Hugh Boss was fined L 6 for having raffled a pony in his licensed, house, at Anderson's Bay. A fire at Balclutha last night destroyed McEenzie's store and the Athenaum, and seriously damaged the Crown Hotel and Hutchin's chemist shop. WbXiXjnotok, March 1 6. It is blowing a strong northerly gale, 1 and should it continue there will be no chance of the regatta coming off to« morrow. The Kaiwarra battery, commencing at noon, fired 91 minute euni as a tribute to the Emperor Wilhelm Major General Sohaw deltrered an in* terestmg lecture to the Volunteers on Wednesday night on the Wellington defences, and announced that it was in* tended to erect a new battery at Melrose, in order to protect Haughton and Lyell bays in the event of a hostile attack on the eitjr. - Obbyhouth, March 16. There is every appearance of another flood. It rained heaviiy last night, and this morning there is still a smart rain, with squalls. The rain rose three feet above high water yesterday afternoon, and has risen one foot within the last hour. A telegram from up the ralley says the water there is within 30 inches of the Jubilee flood.