INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 3130, 9 December 1899, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per PreßS Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 8. For exposing liquor for sale after hours, Harrison, licensee of the Imperial Hotel, was fined by Air Stratford, S.M. £5 and costs and the license ordered to be endorsed. JNotice of appeal was given. WELLINGTON, December 8. Captain Anderson, of the Permanent MHitia Force, died to-day, aged 58.

, 8 For the To.:i'!.: )•:- <nl Civil Hervice. ex animations. v hi. li begin on JauuaryßLh c there are 1241 tMiuiid.-itt'.'-. y Mr Field. M.H.R. for Otaki, who has been m indifferent health for some time „ is seriously ill and his condition is cauii ing concern. 8 Lord Glasgow, writing on October 24th c aaid that ho and Ins family were thi nai p Portsmouth, where Lord Kelbnrne had „ been 12 weeks suffering from a severe at " tack of Malta fever, and was reduced tc 3 the last stage of weakness. He had been - m the Naval Hospital for the last twe i months, whence they hoped to remove , him m ten day?. Lord Glaugow spokf with approbation of New Zealand being » one of the first colonies to move m tin direc! ion of pending men to South Africa ! Tli" DrpTrime.-il ( f Agriculture have ' received further consignments of scale 3 eating ladybird beetles, tree frogs, and , magpie larks, which will be distributed 1 over the North Island. Both birds and j frogs are great insect devourers.