INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11087, 1 October 1907, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) ( AUCKLAND, tins day. During the quarter just ended 400 deatlis were registered in Auckland) against 275 in the same period of last year. The Registrar attributes the exceptionally, high death-rate. to : the prevalence of infantile complaints and influenza. July 'showed the highest number of deaths recorded, viz., 149, an unusually high, proportion, 44,;!being children -under;, five years. The deaths for the quarter' exceed those recorded for any previous quarter; possibly the continuous wet ; weather being a contributing ••"actor. - l CHRISTCHURCH, this day. At Kaiapoi yesterday, G. H. Martin was fined £5 and costs, for dynamiting a water hole in Waimakariri river and taking trout. The defence was that Martin was making experiments,^ with no idea at all of taking trout. He gave notice of appeal. 'William Pateman, a fisherman,was: fined £2 for taking; trout. He had Baited a hook foi> eels, and caught trout, which he did "not return to the river. A second :' charge of being illegally in possession of ttTotiii duiing the 1 close season was withdrawn. x The Hanmer motor car service was opened yesterday. ,- Two more niotor cai-s jvere sent to Culverden yesterday in readiness. ': '•- ; v, '. • " '-'■'•■"■ ;; ■■'-■••' ' ' : ' There was a- ratlier severe frost this morning, and considerable damage to apricot trees and other fruit is feared. During the afternoon yesterday a severe hailstorm was experienced ; in ' North Canterbury, cliahging to rain atCliristchurch, and followed by sunshine. The Rangitatci and ; Rakaia rivers are expected to be in good fishing condition for the opening 1 of tne trout season to-day. Liimbhig has nearly finished on the, Peninsula. The percentage is below that of previous years, but the losses are not so heavy as was expected. . Web'b. the champion sculler, .will arrive at Lytteltbn to-day from the North. He \riirbe in Canterbury for a fortnight, and the Lyttelton Rowing Club intend making him ai presentation on tlie opening dav of the club's season next week. A man. named David L. Moore was charged at. the S.M. r Court to-day with firing a giin at his wife with intent to do her bodily harm'. It appeared that Moore Isad 'been drunk, arid "in that condition quarrelled with, his wife and assaulted her. He cliased her into a- paddock ibehind the house at Sumner, and fired a gun. Ho denied any intention to injure the woman. Mr Bishop, S.M., committed him to trial, bail being allowed in £200 and two sureties of £200 each. DUNEDIN, this day. Captain McOallum, chief harbormaster at Dunedin, after 34 years' service with the Otago Harbor Board, severed his connection with that body yesterday, and retires from the service on two years' full salary. In recognition of his long and able service as harbormaster, representatives of foreign, intercolonial, and coastal shipping services presented him with a solid silver salver and V framed illuminated address, and the staff and "employes presented him with a well-filled purse of sovereigns. There was a ; good muster of members of the Harbor Board present, and all the shipping companies \yero represented. ■' Bread is likely to remain at sevenpence for some time.: Milk, on the other hand, has been reduced to wliat it was before the droug'ht* properly set in. ; Since; the maternity home was opened in; Dunedin two yeaxs ago by the late Premier, 352 patients have been delivered of 357 infants, there being five cases of twins., The infantile mortality has only been one per cent., and the still births slightly over five per cent, of the cases treated. ■ (Special to Herald.) DUNEDIN, this day. Mr Melbourne Inman, who passed through Dunedin on Sunday en route to India, intends returning here in six months' time, when he will take part in a series of billiard matches. ; The High street School Committee have plans out for the construction of baths, and it would seem that the time is not far distant when most schools will be provided with swimming baths. . i The purchase of His Majesty's Theatre was completed yesterday, when Mr Ben j Fuller, on behalf of Fullers', paid over a cheque for £15,000. to Messrs Bathgate and Woodhouse, solicitors for the Agricultural Hall Company.