INTERPOVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1801, 28 March 1888, Page 2

INTERPOVINCIAL NEWS

(Per Pbess Association.)

Auckland, Mar oh 27, It haa been proposed to establish a Department of Dentistry In connection with tho Auckland Hospital, as at present the Auokland students, m order to qualify for a New Z aland deafal diploma, have to go Snath to study. It has boon decided to establish a Cheir of Mublc In connection with the Auckland University College, and Herr Schmidt, of the Auckland Choral Society, is to bo asked to assume the direction of the musical studios ot a (salary of £iOO a year and the ordinary co'lego fees. New Plymouth, March 27. A lad ab )ut eighteen years old named Brophy has baen lost m the buah at Okato since Sunday. Search parties have been out every day bnt failed to find Bny trace of him Ho had only a shirt and trousers when he left, and It is very Improbable he will now be found alive, the weather having been so Inclement and cold. Hla father ia a settler living at Okatn. Wellington. March 27. Non-commlsaloned officers and some of the men In the defenou force have been reduced 6i per day, except those m the third olaes, who are reduced Is. Mr Arthur 8011, son of Sir Dillon Bell has been aßked by the Government to represent New Zealand lv the Conference of colonial delegates on the rabbit post, and will probably consent. Oamaru, March 27. .Frederick Palmer, thirty-Bix years of ago, a laborer, cut bin throat early thia morning, He has suff rad much from neuralgia recently, He arrived by the ship Christian McCanslaad lv 1872. Au iaquest is to bo held this afternoon. Dunedin, March 27. Edmsadg, the landlord of the Tmpeka Mouth Hotel, was fined £5 end 47a coata for aelling liquor on Sunday, and the con vie bn was endorsed on hts lieeuso. Tha evidence showed that liquor had only been sold to Moßory (who ia charged with with the'mnrder of Connelly) and Watch, both of whom were travellers. The Magistrate huld that as these men bad "shouted" for others who wore not travellers it was a brtftoh of the Lloeqalne Aot. : Mra and Miss Joaeph and two ohtldren were accidentally wounded on Saturday by a young man named Conn discharging a gun. Though m one oabb the Bhot penetrated to the ribs, fatal results are not anticipated, ■