INTERPROVINCIAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 551, 25 October 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

THE CHRIST3FIURCH BOARD OF

HEALTH

Chiustchurch,. October 24,

At a meeting of the Local Board of Health to-day, th& Chairman expressed .his satisfaction at the now Public Health Act passed last session, giving power to the B>ard .to ."prohibit the sale of milk where the public.health was likely to be 'endangered The. duty of ..reporting infectious diseases now lay equally between the house-holder and the medical practitioner, each being liable to a heavy penalty for neglect of this duty. THE WEATHER. The ranges on the south aide of Lyttelton harbor were covered with snow this morning, The woatlier was intensely cold in Port. FRBETHOUGHT ASSOOI ATION . The Canterbury Fieethought Association now hold' SuncTJty meetings in Christchurch, at which lectftresai'e given. TE WHITI'S ANSWER.

■A- telegram received from Wellington to-day that Government-have, received a telegram, stating that Mr Butler, Mr Bryce's private Sec, has had an interview with Te Whiti and Tolm, and in presence of 150 natives read to them the proclamation. When he got to the last paragraph which cautioned all Maoris to leave Te Whiti if he did not submit, Tβ Whiti said "That is enough, read no more." In answer to questions Te Whiti said lie had no word to send and nothing to say beyond what had been already said. It is stated that he looked avixiouH and careworn.