INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7692, 8 December 1899, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PES press association.} (BY TELEGRAPH.) WELLINGTON. December 7. The date of the Rangitikei election has been fixed for the 20rh instant. Regulations are gazetted under which commissions in the British Army may be obtained by officers ox the colonial military forces and studests from colonial universities. I ; . egulations are also gazetted respecting admission to the Royal .Military Academy at Woolwich and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. December S. For the teicher3 and Civil Service examinations, which begin on January 8, there are 1241 candidates. Mr Field, .H. P.. for Otaki, who has been in indifferent health for some time, is seriously ill, and his condition is causing concern. For the Conciliation Board Messrs A. Collins and D. P. Fisher have been nominated on behalf of the Unionist!*, and Messrs W. Earnshaw, J. Murrell, H. Flockton, and J. Russell for the employers. There are four vacancies. Lord Glasgow, writing on October 24, said that he and family were then at Portsmouth, where Lord Kelburne had been 12 weeks suffering from a revere attack of Malta fever. He was reduced to the last stage of weakness, and had been in the naval hospital for the last two months, whence they hoped to remove him in ten days. ' Lord Glasgow spoke with approbation of New Zealand being one of the first colonies to move in the direction of sending men to South Africa. The Department of Agriculture has received further consignments of scale-eating ladybird beetles, tree frogs, and magpie larks, which will be distributed over the North Island. Both the birds and the frogs are great insect devourers.

DUNEDIN. December 8The vacant places in the Otago cricket team will be filled by Geddes and Harknesß. CHRISTCHURCH. December 7. Mr Raphasl received a letter to-day from Major Wardill stating that he will bring over a Victorian cricket team consisting of eight M.C.O. men and three professionals. The team will leave Sydney on January 26j and play its first ma ch at Auckland. AUCKLAND. December 7. Arrived Alcestie, from Surprise Island. R. W. West, engine-cleaner, aged 18, who was killed through an accident on the railway at Mercer, was formerly a resident of Timaru. The Auckland Cup candidate Tird has been brought up from Napier in the Te Anau. The racehorse Blue Jack"t has been sold to Mr A. F. Scott, of Hastings, for 400 guineas. He is to remain here to fulfil his A.R.C. engagements. NAPIER. December 7. Nelson Bros, have received the following cable from the G.C. and D. Company, London Frozen meat market depressed. No change in prices.