INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8036, 7 January 1905, Page 6

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Jsy Telegraph — Press Association), Napier, Last Night.

The Hawke's Bay A. and P. Society has resolved to approach the Government asking it to reconsider its decision not to proceed with the erection of sterilising works at Bluff and Auckland, as originally promised, and to ask the support of other societies in the matter. Invercargill, Last Night.

Shearipg has been greatly hindered in the back country by snow, hail, and bitterly cold rain. Shearers have been scarce, and a country correspondent says that in his district only the largest sheds are being worked. Under the Arbitration Court's award the shearers demand £1 per hundred for flocks up to a thousand. There has been the usual trouble with wet sheep, and the man care no more for the. award than if it were so much waste paper. The weather conditions have improved, but the wind still keeps southwards, and it is cold • • out of the sun/* . \ . ■

Wellington, Last Night,

The Post, to-night, refers to some dis-. content among the members tffthe sub marine miners corps of the Permanent Force, stationed at * Shelly Bay, over orderly work and picket duty. The paper adds that the condition of the corps seems to call for prompt investigation, and we think it will then be found that some measures of reorganisation are imperatively necessary. The inquest on Richard James Hosking, of the audit department of the Bank of New Zealand, was held to-day. The evidence showed that death had' been primarily due to aneurism of the heart, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. The deceased was a single man, and aged 48. Joseph Clark, aged sixty, a plumber by trade, hanged himself at his residence, Adelaide-road, this evening. The inquest on the body of young Hobday, one of the victims of the recent yachting accident, was opened to-day, and was adjourned for the testimony of the light house-keeper. The Customs revenue collected in Wellington for the past year amounted to being an increase of £44,804 over that collected in 1908. Taihape, Last Night.

A man named Thomas Smith committed suicide at Turangarere, yesterday, by cutting his throat with a razor. At the inquest, the evidence showed that the man was in delirium tremens. The body was buried this afternoon, the Coroner reading the service.