INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 6464, 27 January 1896, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(by telegraph.) WELLINGTON. January 27. Pending further enquiries the Government has decided not take any action respecting the proposal of Victoria to hold a conference of representatives from various Australasian colonies to devise steps for preventing the introduction of infectious diseases such as smallpox, etc. The Government has decided to call for designs for gold, silver, and broze medals, also certificates for official recognition of deeds of bravery and conduct in the saving of life. Among the appropriations made by the . Cabinet are L2OOO for the Midland Railway Belgrove section, L2OOO for RotoruaTe Tekoa road, LI6OO for the road through the Uriwera country, L2OOO for the Rotorua-Galatea road. The Cabinet has decided to erect a house for the Inspector of Stock at Naseby. AUCKLAND. January 26. A boy named Peterson was run over by a vehicle in the procession following the remains of Bishop Luck, but his injuries are not regarded as serious. On Saturday, at the water picnic of St. Matthew's Sunday School, a girl named Tierney, aged six years, fell off the steamer at Lake Takapuna. Her clothing becoming inflated kept her up till she was rescued by a boat that was lowered. PALMERSTON NORTH. January 26. At the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the destruction by fire of the Longburn Hotel, in which Michael Power was burned to death, the jury returned a verdict that there was no evidence to show how the fire originated, and added a rider to the effect that every hotelkeeper should provide a ladder to reach the windows in the hotel.