INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4979, 21 May 1891, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(BY TELEGRAPH.} (PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. May 20. The Public Trust Commissioner finished taking evidence this afternoon, find their report will be presented to the Governor next week. The Solicitor-General and the Property Tax Commissioners were examined to-day. The drover, William Colley, injured at Foxton on Monday, died last night without recovering consciousness. The census return received by wire from the enumerator at Thames, a borough containing a population of 4664 persons, was omitted. The population of tho colony is therefore larger by that number, and there is a return from one small district in Nelson yet to come to hand. Meat has advanced a half-penny per lb. DUNEDIN. May 20. The question of admitting females a 8 medical students came before the Hospital Trustees to-day. From the reports of the medical stall' it appeared that six out of the nine members favored the exclusion of women, two were in favor of their admittance, and the third thought they should go to Great Britain, where special schools were established. If it was decided to admit them, seven members considered it should be under precisely the same conditions as male students, and they expressed themselves willing to teach mixed classes ; two others desired special arrangements, and would not. teach mixed classes. The Trustees decided to offer no objection to Miss Emily H. Siedeberg, the applicant, attending the usual medical course. As applications have been received frojn all over the colony for treatment by Koch's tuberculine the Trustees decided to arrange for a further supply. A conference was held to-day between the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the city and suburban M.11.R. s and M.L.C.'s, when it was decided to take no steps to hold a public meeting in connection with the Otago Central Railway extension until the views of the Government are ascertained by an interview with the Minister for Public Works, who is shortly expected in Dunedin ; and the Chamber of Commerce was asked to arrange for a deputation on tho subject. The matter of the proposed Harbor Rating Act was also considered, but it was decided to take no action till further information is available. At the annual communication of the District Grand Lodge of Otago and South- j land, E.C., Bro. Sydney James was invested as D.D.G.M., vice Sir R. Stout. Bro. T. S. Graham, D.G.M., spoke in feeling terms of the death, at Auckland, of G.P. Pierce, Provincial G.M. of the Irish Constitution, and stated that a message of condolence had been sent to Mrs Pierce. The D.G. Secretary read the resignation of Sir R. Stout of his office as D.D.G.M., after which the D.G.M. expressed regret that any act of his late deputy should have resulted in his complete severance from English Freemasons, Bro. Stout having resigned in his private lodge as well. He then read tho steps taken by the Grand Lodge of England, and a resolution was passed removing Sir R. Stout from his rank and status as a grand officer of the Grand Lodge of England, and went oil to say that the Grand Lodge having dealt with the matter, he had now to rule that Sir R. Stout is no longer a member of the English Constitution, and there was nothing to place before the Lodge or the Board of General Purposes for adjudication in the matter directed by f he Grand Lodge of England. This, he said, closed a painful subject, which all deeply regretted had occurred.

NAPIER. May 20. The Countess of Onslow and party arrived overland from the lakes this evening. The Hon. Mr Seddon left Auckland 011 Sunday by special train, came on to Napier by special coaches, and left again this evening for Wellington by special train. ASHBURTON. May 20. The Hon. W. P. Peters remains in a most precarious condition. Heavy rain set in this morning, and is still falling. It will do immense good, as the land is so hard as greatly to retard ploughing. A very large breadth of wheat is being put in, and high rents are paid for cropping land. INVERCARGILL. May 20. Although harvest work was delayed by broken weather, 200,000 sacks of grain have been carried over the district railways this season. A deputation of men employed at the Woodlands Preserving Works, interviewed Mr James Kelly, M.H.R., representing that it would be an advantage to the rabbit tinning industry if the inspectors did not enforce poisoning so early in the winter as at present. The industry was an important one, and if it could be cari'ied on say eight months of the year it would give a fair term of employment. Mr Kelly, in reply, said he was impressed with what he had seen at the works, and he would support their member if he brought the matter before the Government.