INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 25, 12 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

PER UNITED PRESS A3SOCATION. Dunedin, ibis Day. . With reference to the reported out. break of small-pox at Port Chalmers, Dr Delantour, who is attending the little girl at Carey's Bay, says that as well as he is able to judge the present disease is not small-pox. The child has feverish symptoms, but the disease has not f ally declared itself. "Wellington. This Day. Quite a scare was created in town today on a rumour that small-pox had broken out at the Lower Hutt. The rumour was quite without foundation. Tne Marine Department have received tho following telegram from Capt. Fairchild, of the Hinemoa, who has returned to the Bluff after his search in the neighborhood of Foveaux Strait for traces of the missing barque Marie Ange : — " Arrived at 7 a.m. Searched Red Head. Preservation and Chalky Inlets, Solanders and Stewart's Island. Found no sign of wreckage or castaways anywhere." The Mayor is improving in health. Detective McGrath has left for Australia to bring the absconding publican, Poppins, to Wellington. An illegitimate infant named Da vies, five weeks old, was found dead in bed yesterday. It is not necessary to hold an inquest, the mother having satisfied the coroner that the child had been ailing from its birth. Various rumours are afloat as to the new Ministry, but nothing definite has been settled. Avckland, This Day. Young Waymouth, who fell over the cliffs at St. George's Bay, bids fair to recover.