INTERPROVINCIAL ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 November 1901, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL ITEMS.

The English Church at Balclutha was lighted with water gas for the first time last week. Measles in a rather severe form wore rampant in Gore last week, and numbers of children were suffering from the malady.

A parade of a Christchurch volunteer corps one night this week was attended ' by only one lieutenant, one private, and the bugler. A few days ago a little bey, son of Mr H. Nelson, of the Napier Railway Workshops, ran a thorn into his hand and died from lock-jaw. A dear smash ! In a quarrel at Hastings on Saturday, a European youth was struck a violent blow by a Maori, The youngster reeled and fell through a plate glass window valued at £l7. The consumption of water by the residents of Lyttelton during the continued dry weather has reached almost alarming dimensions, and steps are being taken to conserve the supply. Dr Kennedy, the resident medical officer at Rotorua, has, since his appointment received £751 in fees for attending private patients. He was not permitted private practices prior to December, 1899. A very severe frost was experienced in the Albury and Fairlie districts the other night. Potatoes and young shoots of shrubs, etc., were blacken, d badly. The Governor has presented a military cane to each of the boys who acted as captains of the Napier School Cadets when he inspected the corps on 20th August. Captain W. Cummings, at one time chief officer of the White Star liner lonic, has been appointed master of the Gisborne Harbour Board’s new dredge at a salary of £ls per month. Dr John Logan Campbell, Auckland’s ex-Mayor and pioneer settler, celebrated his 85th birthday last Sunday by making the ascent of Eangitoto, tho lofty volcano, at the mouth of the harbor.