INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1720, 5 April 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A seven-year-old daughter of Me T , Smith, of Cam Mill, Kangiu.a, died suddenly on Monday evening. Professor Kirk, chief conservator of forests, reports that damage to the extent of over £IO,OOO has been done to Puhipuhi kauri forest by the fire which raged in it for some days. The timber in the forest is estimated to be worth £300,000. A young man named Arthur Secular, one of a pa'ty of throe that went shooting at Wellington on Good Friday, is missing. The party got bushed, and Secular's companions decided to go along the bank of the creek, but he would not hear of it, and started for the bush in the direction in which he thought'the township lay. Ho has cot since been beard of. Jt is understood that changes ate to he made in the locomotive mid railway workshops departments. It is believed that Mr Rotherham, the locomotive superintended for the Middle Island at Addington, is to be removed to Wellington, and made head of the department for the whole colony. Mr Kothnuyne, the present manager of Petouo workshops, is to replace Mr Rotherham. Mr Beattie, manager of the Wanganui shops, is removed to Pe-tone, and will have charge of both Wellington and Wanganui branches. L. Dixon, champion skater of JMew Zealand gave an exhibition of skating at Auckland on Tuesday night, completing a mile in smin 9sec. The man who was killed on the

Auckland tram line has been recognised as Joseph William Bracefield, buslmmi, of Wade. He leaves a widow and seven children. At the Supreme Court, Duuedin, yesterday, George Smlkhurst. false pretences, pleaded guilty and received six months. Dennis Murphy, for burglary, got five years. Ah Chew was convicted ol larceny and sentence was deferred, Young Bropby, who was lost in the buah at Okato, near New Plymouth, eleven days ago, has not been found, notwithstanding that large search parties have been out actively engaged in looking for him every d>-y since he was first missed.

An Auckland telegram says: PSUvin lub expressed his willingness t<meet J .k Burke, A sporting scribe ri-coumi nds Matthews, the American pugid-t, to retire from tin* ring. Matthews i> completely knocked up and ip.declining in health,

Dr Er?on waited upon the Minister of Public Works at Auckland on Tuesday with regard to the present administhe sanitary laws of the colony, and pointed out the failure of the present system of the municipal control in sanitary matters ; that epidemics of preventive diseases were recurring in various parts of the colony with increasing severity ; thit no system of periodical inspection existed, and while boroughs eagerly sought for aid, and borrowed money to obtain water supplies, no provision was made for sewerage; that attempts at the city and suburban drainage were and in many cases but intensified the evils which they proposed to remove ; that there was at present no sanitary authority to appeal to for guidance or direction worthy of the name. Dr Erson finally urged the adoption of provincial boards of health, consisting of experts in pubde health and sanitary engineering in order to place the health of the people under competent and efficient control. Mr Mitchelson coincided with Dr Erson as to the seriousness of the present and other epidemics, and asked that gentleman to draw op a report and the remedy he proposed, which he would forward to the Colonial Secretary for his considers tion and that of Government.