INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1739, 19 May 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At Auckland on Thursday a young gir named Matilda Simpson was omit to the Industrial School for stealing several go'd bracelets and lockets from Hislop and Littlejohn's, jewellers, She made a practic» of pricing goods, and when the shopman’s back was turned, pocketed the articles. At Wellington on Wednesday Dr Hector dissected the body of a rabbit suffering from bladder buke, a disease which causes the bladder to swell and displace other internal organs and ultimately onuses death. He is of opinion that the process is to slow to eradicate the pest unless speedy means could he found of spreading the disease. Mr John McLean, M.R.0.Y.5., who was assisting in the operation, thinks it a form of hydatid which is also found among sheep, and experiments ought to bo undertaken to ascertain whether its spread among rabbits would be fatal to sheep. The inquest on the body of John Morten, who was found dead at Lyttelton on Monday, was concluded on Thursday, A letter was read from deceased to a resident in Tiinaru stating that he intended to commit suicide on account of troubles connected with mo.my, and that ho had previously attempted suicide, but had only made himself ill, and had been in the hospital where the doctors did not find out what was really the matter with him. Lt was proved that he find bought “ Hough on rats ”at a chemist’s shop in Christchurch. A verdict of suicide by taking “ Rough on rats ” was returned.

A Maori woman named Were Poki, at Otnki, Wellington, the wife of a halfcaste, cut her throat on Wednesday, but not seriously. She is considered insane. Boiixwat's Phis and Ointment.— Vicissitudes of climate, exposure and h rd* ships, tell heavily on soldiers and sailors, sowing the needs of dinasei which may ultimately break up the constitution. Naturally careless of their health, a word in season may avert many erih, and may cause them to resort to timely measures without ruy diffi-nilty or publicity, Holloway's effectual remedies »"u so suitable, and so easily adapted for the vjious complaints to which out soldisro and sailors are liable, that a supply should r\«»ya be obuiatd befoio procer-Hup abroad. It may wiih co'.fid.-nce bo at>tod that rn.iny a valuable bfo might have been saved, or confirmed cripple prevented from 1 begfelug iu the streets, if Holloway’r remedies I had bees used iu time.