INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.), / '.-'.. - WELLINGTON, last" night. . The Wellington vital statistics for May are : Births 232, deaths 78, marriages,.-. 92;- 'The corresponding 'figures for May last year are: Births'' 196, deaths- 81, marriages' /74. ■'■'■'■'" v. ' ... . Two ■ men;. Albert , Edward Rpbihson and .Henry Donald. Campbell; iWe^re' today committed for'^trial on a cliarge of robbery wiflh violence. '

The victim, Rana Bagvan, a Hindu, stated that while in •■' a< lioteT bar one of the accused pinned ; him'' against" -a 1 wall, gripping his throat' while his com panion took £5 from Bag van .'s- pockets. GHRLSTGHURCH,- -this day. A case of infantile paralysis, a niale, aged 18' months, in" South'.- Canterbury, was reported to-day. • Tlie Arbitration -Court will /sit here' on June 12. Tliere' is a very'» long" list" of matters 'to deal with'. -i -' DUNEDIN, last' night. One smallpox patjeht, belonging* to the Waikato, is: in- a very critical ipondition, and little hope is ! held-->oiit for his recovery. The other ]pati4iit is.^rogiisssing satisfactorily.- - ■ -.■■;>.• lan MacGregor, 4 year's '-'of" ago, felj into a: wool press- at' the Ellis Flock Mill at Kaikorai to-day. ; The child was found- at 6 p.m. smothered. The child was playing about near where his father worked, and was , found ' by jthe N latter head downwards*''" in 'the-** press., -■ The father tried to restore • animation, but without result; " -,