INTERPOVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2893, 8 February 1893, Page 2

INTERPOVINCIAL.

Auckland, February 7. The J^anks decided to-day to pffuce tlje rate of interest on bank depots tor twelve months froni 5 to 4| per cent. The annual sheep fair of Buckland and Sons was held to-day at Remuera. The sheep were in fine condition and good prices were obtained. Two^tooth wethers reached as much as 225. Wellington, February 7, The Marine Department intends to appoint permanent examiners of masters and mates. Two officials will be selected, who will make periodical visits throughout the colony for the purpose of making examinations, and local examiners will be aWished. A. trial of typewriting machines on an extended scale is being made in the Telegraph Department with 1 a view to detferjjiine the best!for ttie Goverhnienti Five n}aohif|e>s ar.e~jn use and two others h^ye b'gen rejected. ' '- " * !fhg number"of patients fn the Tfospit^l is lit. and it; was stated at a meeting Qf the trustees this morning, that patients were now sleeping in the corridors. The trustees decided to obtain a legal epiniou whether they had power to divert the sum of £500 (out of £6000 set apart for a new wing) for the erection of a building close to the present premises for the reception of typhoid fever cases. * TliQ New Zealand Government have cibled a protect against the annexation of Hawaii by the United States of America.'' At the inquest on'the body of the woman French^ otherwise Friend, otlier--1 wise Death, ' who died yesterday after- | noon after her confinement under suspicious circumstances, a verdict was returned that death was due to hemorrhage. The jury added a rider, that if the midyife had called, in medical assistance after the birth of tlje first chill the woman's life might pogsib'jr have bee}) Bayed,

In thj Magistrate's Couit thia after-1 noon a case arising out of a difference between t\v,» well-known citizens came on for hearing. Mr An 'raw Camp 1 •'i Manager of the National Insura a Company, was charged by Mr George Snnrfc, pawnbroker, with having committed an assault upon him on Jauu-uy 17, and Campbell laid an information ag-uusi Smut, charging him with hairing used abusive language towards him on Custom House Quay on the samo data with infcoM it wa3 alleged to provoke a breach of tinpeace. The charge against Campbell wadismissed, and Smart was fimd 40s and costs. Hokitika, February 7Mr Rhody O'AlalJey, |>roptio;nr »>f the tramway between Hokifika ai.d Kan tori. , was killed this afternoon. 'J lie horse got. I frightened and bolted. Mr O'Mally endeavoured to pull it in, buc by a Budde:i jerk he was dragged on to thft line in front of the carriage which partially weiu over him. He managed with assistance to reach his hut but died on his way to the hospital. Ddhedik, February 7 AtMosgielPoliceCourt, Dennis O'Brien was charged under the Police Offences Act with working oh Sunday, in stacking his crop at Wingatui. He pleaded guilty, and was fined one shilling, without cists. At the monthly mcc.ing of the Tailoresses' Union to-night, a resolution was adopted, calliug upon the Government and legislature to pass into law at an early stage of next session a Conciliation Bill, providing for the enforcing of awards, so that working women, when oppressed in the manner recently brought to light at Auckland, might h*ve legal means of redress.