INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 105, 26 February 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

I PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.,! Nelson, February 24. Mr Seideberg, of Dunedin, last niyht played blindfolded two members of the Nelson Chess . Club. The game was drawn on the thirty- fourth move, Auckland, February 24. An cndeayour is to be made to form a syndicate to work the Cassel Company's gold saving process in New Zealand. The conference between representatives of the employers and the labour bodies for the formation of a Bonrd of Con cilislion has drafie.l rules for tlie Board, These are to be submitted to the various bodies interested for their consideration. Cheistchubch, February 25. . Sir Johu Hall, after deducting his ex-

penses in Wellington during the recent session, has divided the balance of his honorarium among the public institutions in his electorate. DuNLDiN, February 24. " The Cairn run, comprising 1700 acres freehold and 13,550 acres leasehold,, with 10,000 half-bred and Merino sheep, was sold to-day by the Farmers' Agency Co. to a Dunedin gentleman for .£BOOO cash. New Plymouth, February 24. The train from Wanganui was delayed last night owing to an accident near Waiongona. A bag of grass seed fell oft and caught in the wheel of the next truck, causing it to jump off the rails, thus dragging three others with it, and narrowly escaping taking a passenger carriage also. The engine was stopped, and a gang of men cleared the couplings from the' derailed trucks. -