INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5205, 11 February 1892, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(IIY TKI.KiatAI'It.) (PKIt PIIHSS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND. February !>. A motion submitted to the 1 lospitalmid Charitable Aid Hoard jtrovidiu;' that the Ho;ml should abandon the :i|against tho decision given against them in the case of Lovolt, wiio brought nil action to recovor damages tor alleged maltreatment in the 1 lospital, ,vns lost. The Chairman (Mr liatkin) .said the position of every medical practitioner and every Hoard in tlie colony was jeopardised by the decision in the Lovett case, and if it, were not reversed l>y the Court, of Appeal there should lie an amendment, of the Act. Mount Toiigariro, a cone of which (Nganrohoc) broke mil. in eruption on Sunday, was covered with dense smoke all day yesterday, and this morning an earthquake occurred, lasting aliout l.'l seconds. February 10. The Presbyterian Assembly granted l.lio applications for admission of the Revs. Calder, M'Donald, Whyte, and Ross. A Committee was appointed to consider the possibility of .sending a Moderator as delegate to the I'aii-l'rcsbyterian Conference at Toronto. A resolution of sympathy and condolence with the family and congregation of the late Rev. C. 11. Spurgeon was passed. It. was unanimously decided rot to alter the time of assembly meeting. NVANCANUI. February 10. Yivat, Caplor, and Yattaway have been scratched for Ihe Two-year,old Sialics at; the Wanganui .Jockey Club's autumn meeting. The iirst day's sale at. Messrs Freeman R. .Jackson and Company's rain fair was a great success. There was a large attendance from all parts of the coast, and bidding was brisk and rapid. Five hundred and lifly-two rams were sold •singly, averaging L. r > Is 5d each. Mr .lames S. Holmes, of (>ainani, topped (he market, for studs with .'iti guineas, and Mr William Wilson, Klslea, for flocks, with 17 guineas for two. In larger numbers, Mr .J. Raynor, Wairarapa, made the highest average, LS 5s lid for Hi Hocks, and Mr .1. Wilson, Flslea, averaged Lli 18s Md for (>O. The fair will be concluded to-morrow.