INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 117, 26 March 1891, Page 2

INTERPRO VINCIAL NEWS.

1 PBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. J Ma stjs rton, March 24.: William Teare, who on Saturday night last, while under the influence of liquor, committed a cowardly assault on' aa elderly woman, wife of a borough over-, seer, by striking her violently oyer thft head, was to-day sentenced to a month's hard labour in Wellington Terrace Gaol. ;, Wellington, March 25. The Rirautaka, from London, passed. Cape Farewell at 10.15 this morning and will arrive here at 7 to-night. • ' The Education Board at a meeting to day considered the Auckland Herald's article on education in New Zealand. A resolution was passed to this effect that the article is unworthy of serious consideration, but as the Minister had asked for a reply to it the Chairman, on behalf of the Board, had replied in a lengthy • letter. The Temperance refreshment rooms of Mrs Ellen Harding, formerly hotelkeeper in Wellington and Auckland, were raided by the police to-day and a, quantity of beer found secreted on the premises/ which are situated two doors off the Opera House in Manners-street. The police have laid two informations against her for sly grog sellings - * Palmebston Nobth, Mar«;h 25. After two days' rain, tlie weather has now l urned fine and promises to be. favourable for the encampment. Fifty Permanent 4rtillerymen arrived yesterday, and are busily engaged erecting: tents. Provision is , being made for nearly 1500 men. W v Auckland, March 25. News has been received of a violent assault and- robbery in Wairoa South , district The victim is a feeble man of 76, a farmer, named Wiliiam Bitch. He was enticed at night out of his house, a l.vriely place about a mile from any other dwelling, and was beaten and his watch and chain stolen. A young man named Thomas Fry, a ialnurer, has been arV rested on suspicion of having committed tiie offence. &. visitor to Ttotorua to pay Te Kooti £500 if he will go on a twelve months' trip for exhibition in the Australian colonies. He will also insure the Native's life for £3000. Te Zooti promised to consider the matter. : Sir George Grey was nominated ■■'tat the Newtown seat to-day. ! " ■ Greymouth, This Day..Prospecting operations at the Blackball coal lease yesterday, resulted in striking! a seam of good coal. As it dips out it can be worked level and free of drainage,, thus entailing no cost. It is a large field;. «. hr:6Tchithch, March 25. Last night a cash box, containing £30, was missed from the Junction Hotel, Halswell. Early this mornii g Detective O'Connor arrested . a respectably-con" nected young man named William Marshall McDowall, and part of the money was found in his possession, The cash, box, with the remainder, was discovered buried in his garden. He was remanded;