INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12379, 24 February 1903, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[phisb ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Monday. A prisoner nemed Lee attempted to escape from the camp atWaiotapu on Sunday but was captured in a few minutes, Hokitika, Monday. The Borough Council decided this evening to employ Mr Leslie Benolds, C.E., of Dunedin, to report and draw plans and specifications for a proposed drainage and sanitation scheme involving an expenditure of .21000. Christchurch, Monday. At a meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, the question of applying for a library grant from Mr Carnegie wei referred to the museum and library committees to consider and report. Mr J. Speight was appointed lecturer on geology at Canterbury College. The Christohnroh Hospital Board has asked the City Council to authorise it to spend £IOOO on an infections diseases hospital at Bottle Lake. This action has teen taken on account of a report by the district health officer that there was a large increase in the number of oases of scarlet fever, and that the accommodation at the main hospital in Christchurch was insufficient. The council refused to pass the sum, as a bill will Is brought before Parliament next session to give the entire control of these things to the Hospital Board, and as it was considered that the emergency is not so great as to demand immediate attention.

F. Hempleman, ex-olerk at the local brewery, wai charged on three informations at Kaiapoi with theft of money from hit employer. He was committed for trial. Bail was allowed, Dunedin, Monday. Frederick Ealph Payne, two years of age, son of Mr Payne, solicitor, fell over a bank at Belleknowei, and received injuries to which he succumbed. Thornes Bedpsth shot himself with a pea rifle shortly after returning from chcroh from Waitahnna yesterday. He had been suffering from insomnia. Inteecaegill, Monday.

At a meeting of citizens to-night to debate the Borough Council’s proposal to borrow £12,000 to build municipal offices and theatre, a motion in favor of the project was carried, and a poll will be taken on the question. It the loan is secured it will give £15,600, the bale.no being now in hand as accrued rents of reserves. Most of tbe published opinions have been against tbe project as too extravagant, but the fact remains that there is no place of entertainment now available in town.

This morning a youth ol 19 living in the anbnrbi suddenly became insane and bached off the tips of three of his fingers. He then attached his mother, threw her to the floor and tried to strangle her with hie maimed hands. The house is in a sparsely-peopled locality, and when Mr Gray, second officer of the steamer Herald, who was visiting his family while hit ship was in port, got on the scant, matters looked ghastly. Jhe youth exerted superhuman strength, and it was some time before assistants Strived. Mr Gray had a sharp struggle with him. Eventually the police and a doctor were got. The injnted hand was dressed, and the lad was taken into custody. The mother, though smob exhausted, was not tainted.

A man named James Casey was sentenced toitwelve months’ imprisonment (or indecent behaviour in the presence of girls.