TNTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 85, 7 October 1893, Page 2

TNTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PES PRESS ASSOCIATION). Palmebston N., October 6. Tbe united bodies of Friendly Societies in Palmerston North have decided to celebrate Labour Day by holding a monster picnic. Arrangements have been made for public speeches as well as the usual sports. Wellington, October 6. ' The Wellington Shooting Association haye chosen Captain Balhnger, Lieutenant Kirk, and Bombardier Howe, to represent them at the Sydney meeting. Ahout £30 has been collected towards tbe expenses of the trip. Mr W. P. Beeves, Minister of Educa* tion, goes South in the Tongariro to morrow, and Mr Ward, Colonial Treasurer, in the beginning of next week. A largo number of mom hers, including Mr Bolleston and Sir Robert Stout, loft for the South in the Rotorua. There was quite i crowd to soo the boat off, and the Premier, who was present, called for cheers which were heartily responded to by tbe lepartmg M.H.Rs. Auckland. October 6. A airl, named Sarah Eves, aged 14, Bommittcd suicide at Tokatoka, Northern Wairoa. She swallowed carbolic acid. Wm McKenzie Nicholson was recently Irowned at Olmngape. He was aged 4, md the sou of a schoolmaster. As the janks were sleep near the 60hool it is i elieved be fell in. The body wel fouad

the same afternoon by Maoris ou the beach thiee miles off. Mr J. C. Firth is engaged in erecting a factory at Bangirm, on tho Waikato River, for the preparation of pumice as a substitution for charcoal in the insulators of frozen meat steamers, &c.