INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2897, 13 February 1893, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, February 11. j Mr Mackay, of the Labor Bureau, is to visit Feilding on Monday, and go over the I State farm with Captain A. G. Turner, of j the Survey Department, with a view to commencing operations at an early date , Dt Giles has sent in his report on the charges brought by the HonMr Mitchelson in the House of Repiesrfntatives last aession against Mr John King, census enumerator of Auckland, upon which Dr Giles recently sat aa Royal Commissioner. The report exonerates Mr King from all charges brought against him. Mr W, Bridson, Registrar of tli6 Native Lands Court, has claimed his pension and is about to retire. He has b«en in the Government service since 1862. The Hospital Trustees have decided^ to call for tenders for the erection of a separate building for typhoid patients, pending the building of a new wins. The " Poet's " Mastertor correspondent w j res . " Shocking revelations have been made here in connection with the milk supply of thfi town. It has been discovered that several children have been poisoned by pyratoxicon. The germs were developed in the milk, and JJr Hoskings says that something will have to be done at once to prevent putrid milk being supplied." Wellington, February 12Mr J. T, Walker, a settler at Stony Creek, near Palmerston North, was picked ijp in an unconscious state on the road -$3t" night"." He was found to have sustained seyere injury to the brain. »nd died without regaiuing consciousness, fltr Walkpr is supposed to have been thrown from his horse. Mr W. F. Roydhouse, who started the "Evening Press" nine years ago, and who has been conneoted with the papw ever since, has left for the Wairarapa, where h» has purchased a paper in Gr ytown. Last night he was presented by JhT Staff of tjie MPresß" with ao jllumirated framed ad^resa and a snve; Jalver. as a token of appreciation in hib_ arlous capacities, both »s an employe and a fellow-worker. O'Brii-p, who was some years ago om_ of the best wrestlers in the the city, died in gaol this morning. Ho had oeen drinking heavily and last week vas arrested on a charge of larceny. He was jemanded and cent to g*:>l for medical |rcfttlttent,