INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6486, 1 October 1892, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Bi Telegraph.— Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Last night. By the Rotokino which l«ft for Calcutta to-night 250 horse« were sent away. They include carriage horses, polo ponie», etc. Eighty-one of the animals are shipped by Hawkius, of Chriatchurch, 51 by Smith, of Christchurch, and .the balance (of which a large majority are from the Hawlte's Bay district) by Haggerty, of Dunedin. The Railway Commissioners have received information that the slips that have taken place in the Gorge wjll block the line for a week, possibly longer. As, however, the main coach road and oth«r breaches on the railway line will b« repaired some time today, the Commissioners havo -arranged for a coach to run between Aihurst and the Manawatu road bridge. The R.M.S. Monowai with the English mails of the 3rd inst. left San Francisco for Auckland on the 16th inst , contract date, and the R.M.S. Alameda, with colonial mails of the 10th inst., arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 29th inst. , contract date. To-day.— The Premier ia suffering from , heart disease and atrophy of the stomach, the latter troubling him most. Mr Tennyson Smith, the temperance lecturer, and his wife, have been presented at a complimentary social with a large portrait of themselves, surrounded by workera of the recent mission, and an address speaking in high terms of the work effected during their stay here. The lecturer replying, announced that that they had been so repeatedly pressed to carry on the campaign till the general election, when ho trusted to see a victory all along the line. Mr Smith has established a Working Man's T«mp«rance Club at Petone, which he opened last night with 50 members. WOODYILLE, Labt night. Dr. Davenport, who was examined in Syms' caso to-day, said he found Mrs Hall suffering from a miscarriage, and from information obtained and his own examination he reported the case to the police. Mrs Hall was in a dangerous state, and he was present when Constable Treanor took her depositions. Her condition would be accounted for by the use of instruments such as was produced ia Court. No layman, he said, nor even a medical man, would be justified in using such instruments even if the woman was suffering from the disease which Mrs Hall was said to hare suffered from. Drugs would assist the operation, and witness found medicines given Mrs Hall containing ergot, which would tend to produce abortion. Witness also subsequently observed symptoms which confirmed him in saying that abortion had been procured. Mrs Hall was also ■uffering from ergotism, produced by taking ergot. Dr. Davenport was still under examination at 8 p.m. GREYMOUTH, Today. Two swaggera going to Banytown from Brighton found a tent standing in the bush near the track. It looked as if it had been standing for a couple of years and inside was a skeleton, bleached white, with boots, moleskin trousers, cotton shirt, coat, vest, and hat alongside the skull. There was a bridle underneath the tent, old and mildewed. WANGANUI, Today. A dispute has arisen between the management and the Italian Concert Company. The latter, with two exceptions, though the house was full last evening, refused to Bing, claiming the salaries that were due. The management contend they were only due to-day, and the audience had their money returned. The management threaten proceedings. OHRISTCHURCH, Today. The Industrial Association express great gratification at the intention of the Government to u»e colonial cement and galvanised iron, and have decided to press the Government for a reply as to » bonus for paper making, the Association being assurred that the capital is ready for the enterprise as Boon as a bonus is offered.