INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 8228, 16 September 1901, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

[Z7 TELIQBArZ.j Pse Pkess assoctatioh. WELLINGTON. September 10. The Rockland* Beach dredge did not nrash up las: week. The Wellington «onn>f hockey representatives defeated the Palmers: on North It earn in that tcuvn on Saturday by one 'goal *o nil. CHRISTCHURCH. September 14. The test race organised by the New Zealand branch of the Dunlop Tyre Company to select a representative for the colony in the Wamambool to Melbourne road race ■was held to-d:iy. The course was 50 .miles, from Ohristchurch to Leeston and back. Nine .started in unfavorable wea; nor. and so far as the wind was concerned it was blowing from all noints of the cornpas?. The race vras won by A. Ralston (Lite of T-aieri but now of Invercargill). with T. Garkson second, 20 yards away. j TIMARU. September 14. The classes for school teachers in carpentering, kindergarten work, modelling, and brashwork, established by the Board of Education, have commenced work. The ißoard have fitted up in a .temporary room ten double carpenters' benches, with a 4-npplv of tools, and applicants for instruction were too numerous for two classes. About- sixty female teachers attended the kindergarten class, and five and twenty males were added for modelling and brushwork. Serjeant Green, promoted to be 'suoinspector at Invercargill. ■was to-day presented by t'he police ofiicf-r? of the district with a travelling bag and rug, with many expressions 'of esteem and goodwill. He leaves for Invercargill on Monday.