INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 111, 21 April 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] Wellington, April 19. Dr. Key worth, a former practitioner here, who visited England on account of ill health, returned by the Tongariro and Wairarapa to-day and will take charge of the Wellington Hospital as house surgeon. INSURANCE ON FROZEN MEAT. It is rumored that insurance companies are likely soon to decline insuring frozen meat sent by sailing vessels, except at rates which will be prohibitive ; length of time over which the risk on sailing vessels cargo extends is so much greater than when meat is forwarded by steamer. Mr. Sargent, chief officer of the Halcione, at present in Wellington, has received the appointment of master of the Glenlora, which recently arrived at Lyttelton in charge of the first mate, the Captain having died on the voyage out from London. THE WAIRARAPA’S REFRIGERATOR. The Wairarapa, now in port, is being fitted with freezing machinery. The Refrigerator is one of Haslam’s patents and is capable of freezing a thousand sheep at a time. The machinery is already in working order, but the refrigerating chamber is not quite completed, the carpenters still being engaged. Two extra workmen have been taken on while the steamer is in port, to assist. It is expected the whole apparatus will be in proper working condition by the time she reaches Auckland. MR. BRYCE’S LIBEL CASE. The Hon. Mr. Bryce has received from Messrs. Chambers and Hall, the publishers of Mr. Rusden’s History of New Zealand, a letter of apology, and stating that all copies of the book will be withdrawn from circulation until the matter complained of is expunged, or the libel case goes in favor of Mr. Rusden. It was not Mr. Bryce’s intention to proceed against the publishers unless his agents, Messrs. Pains and Co., London, thought it necessary for their client’s interest. Mr. Bryce has also been advised that the writ has been served on Mr. Rusden, at Cannes, in France. The amount of damages is not yet known, as the sum to be fixed is left in the hands of Messrs. Paines and Co. No date is stated for the return of the writ, but it is understood that if necessary Mr. Bryce will go home. LUCKY ESCAPE. Dunedin, April 21. A passenger named Peter McCormick was thrown off the platform of a train from the North, near Port Chalmers, on Friday. He fell on his head but was only very slightly hurt. He was thrown off by a sudden jerk. FATAL ACCIDENTS. William Tennant, a well-known Commercial Traveller in the country districts, was thrown out of a buggy while crossing the Manuherika River, and was drowned. He leaves a grown-up family. THE HOSPITAL BILL. Christchurch, April 21. Mr. Dick informed a deputation from the Charitable Aid Board that there was no probability of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill being introduced next session. DEATH FROM A KICK. At Ashley a man named Nicholas Boyce was killed by a kick from a horse. DIVORCE COURT. Auckland, April 21. The Divorce Court granted a rule nisi in the case Swanson v. Swanson and Piripi. The parties were married in 1882. Soon after the respondent, a pretty Maori girl, evinced great dislike to her husband, and several times left her home to go to Piripi, Native Assessor. She was brought back b her relatives, but she at last succeeded in escaping, and has since lived with the corespondent. Miss Crisp, matron of the hospital, was presented by the Governor with an Order of the Royal Red Cross for service on the battle field.

FOUND DROWNED. Yesterday the police found the body of Edwin Welcome, commission agent, floating in the harbor. He arrived here from Taranaki only a week ago and had been drinking heavily. Welcome was last seen on Saturday night. He is said to possess considerable pioperty in New Plymouth. MR. DEDERLIE. Mr. Federli is addressing settlers of the North on the cultivation of subtropical plants. DEATH OF A JOCKEY. William Brimmer, a well-known jockey, was run over by a timber waggon, at Kamo, and killed. The Governor left for Dargaville by train to-day. NATIVE OBSTRUCTION. Thames, April 21. i A snagging party sent by Read, of this place, to clear about a mile aan a-half of the Piako river, just above its junction with ehe Waitoa river, so as to allow him to get sleepers up here in dry weather, was on Thursday turned back by order of Winikeri, a chief of the Ngatipaoa tribe. No violence was used, but the Natives stated that had not savage, a half-caste, been with them, the party would not have got off so easily. The Natives do not seem to object to snagging most of the river, but would not let them touch one log lying right across the stream, and which they say is tapu. This, however, is only a quibble, as the tapu has been taken off years ago by one of the Natives cutting a hole in the log.