INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5790, 6 October 1893, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telbqbaph.) AUCKLAND, Octobbe 5. Dr McGregor, Inspector- General of Hospitals, has gone to inspect the Botorua Sanatorium. , The girl Nicholson, who •wallowed matches, and the man Henry, who attempted to shoot himielf through the head, are progressing favourably at the hospital. It is reported that" attempt*, especially m the suburbs, are being made to break down the Shop Hours Act m the weekly hßlfholiday, i ome employees are belUved to be deprived of the half-holiday. The Inspeotor cf Faofcories threateDß prosecutions. GISBOBNE, Coiobkb 5. The body of the misding man W. 8. Green wai found m the Waiapu river at Awanui. Constable Cougbian, who was directing the search, bad a narrow ejscape from drowning. An offray occurred ia»t night during which c man named George 'limuas stabbed m the abdomen two you^g men D&mfld John and Joseph Brown, buah-fell?.rß. Ho w*s arreated. WELLINGTON. Octobbb 5. Two hundred of the Martini-Henry rifles ordered by the Government arrived from London yesterday. Allan Hann»y. a new arriv»l by the Tongariro, en route for LyttoLton, was sen tenoed to a month to-day for obscene language. Captain Bdwiu reports that there are now strong indications of there being easterly gales on the coast of Queensland and New South Wales, and that there is a cylone centre betwaan New Caledonia and Australia, (traveling to the south-eastward. A resident of Wellington, who has just returned from a trip to America and England, «raa told m New York by Dr Talmage that he intended to viait New Zealand within the next two years. DUNEDIN, Octobbb 5. At the inquest on the body of John Cameron a verdict of heart disease was returned- He was 74 years o£ age and a widower. He had left his homt to tea if his xtftmo was on the electoral roll. I