INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 124, 19 May 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PBB UNITED PRKBS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, May 17. The Education Board to-day declined the request of the Kaikorai School Committee for the inspection of the school by an independent Inspector, and resolved that a change it. the headmastership was desirable, and that the former decision to dispense with him be adhered to. Tbe Government have informed . the Mayor that work will be found for all deserving men out of work, on the Otago Central railway. ?|The Education Board hare decided to amiss Mr McLachlan as from the end of August. Mastebton, May 18. A fire occurred m Queen -street at two this morning. A private house the property of Mr W. Great head, was com* pletely destroyed. It was insured in the National for LI 50. Chbistchttbch, May 18. The sixteen months old son of Mr Clark, biscuit manufacturer, was drowned. last night by falling into a bucket of water iv the scullery of his father house. Wellington, May 19, The Tongariro arrived this morning. The steamer Wainui, which arrived yesterday from Fiji, had a narrow escape off Cape Palliser. Owing to the foggy weather the vessel ran on the p ejecting rocks. She had no speed on, however, when she ran on the rocks and she came off again by her own weight in about five minutes. She will be taken up on the slip and examined. Auckland, May 18. A child of . Mr V. Comes was injured at Te Aroha by the explosi >n of a dynamite cap, which it had picked up and was flattening with a hammer. A boy sitting near was also wounded on the check. '