INTERPROVINCIAL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1084, 4 February 1879, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Welungton, Thursday. The Government are about to fit up an icehonae oa board the Hinerooa for the purpose of distributing about W.lliogtou the white ti-h that are expectedjfrom 'Friaou by the n«-xt mail steamer. T.ie principal portion of thcee fish will be sent to Invercargill tor the Ikes aud rmrs La th it digtrijt, as it is considered that the m-re Dothern parti of 4 the c Jouy are too warm for them. The Hin^moa will probably leave here for Auckland on Thursday uexc, wheuuhe will la^e the < ommißßi men ou Higher Education to obtain en deuce theif. K. J. Duncan a-lla th« reclaimed laud tomorrow. Tenders will bs called ia a few days for the In c fire miles of the Grey mouth and Hukttik* railway.

Wbstport, February 3. |i MrG.S. Cooper andMijor Roberts, 8.M., || arrived by the Reef ton coach on Saturday to sic II as a commission to-day in regard to the cha- geg M of iiitemperano* and consequ -nfc neglect < f dtty S male aga nst Warden Broad, EM.hy ths police || officer in charge to his Bup«rt«»r. it i » said that || the Jatter had been incited by the warden to re- |§j porting the aAi officer un<Usjivfcdly. || Christohurch, February 3. M A Mr Gibson had a very narrow escape from M death. H<s had rec-ivdd a hurt in the stoma h, M and v> eat to Dr Stewart for si>me malic ne. M Tii.*t gtntlernau gyv<-him two bott«-, oue con. M oainii.g a liuaineut in which there were laig 6 1| quanties of aconite aad belladona, of course for Wt outward application, and the other a draught. W When Mr Gibson reached home with the g medicine, he retired and by mistake swallowed W the poisonous linainent iv tead of th« draught, p T.Hi tffdcrs wt-re at once ft-lr, *nrl h« ha > gre:t i mcr.lny in c lli-g. t c ethnr ii;m*te* «.t tho || h u-c t.y rjp i.iy on 'h~ wa;l with a Dru-h. O u || r«c iv.n; t c aUria r. ey at >»tee »cut fo> D-. p Se^»it, wh«i petUi y arrtvtd, and wih , t ;^ sumioh pump rd-ev-d tiiH »uff rer, wiio {>ag | now i.cvtied. H^d iher« be> v n».» nv/ditai I mau within » sh to distMuce. Gib.on mv * i>ave | (■uid lor Ji B mir-t, ke «ita h'S Jif -. | Tn« total liUiinier of noiniua ed immigrant;s 1 in Cunsoo mcb f>r the past month was 164 1 sou i a p AJa y Eiiziheth Groves, a widow, aged 76, H was f >uud dead in her gatv.eu yesterday at uwia. Tn--' supposed uante oi death w apopiexy: Au ~^ i.qiebt wdl be b«'d. f<