INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2734, 21 January 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

« [by telegraph.— press association DUNEDIN, Last Night. Inspector Pardy, formerly of Auckland, takes permanent charge of Dunedin police district, Inspector Moore replacing him at New Plymouth. INVERCARGILL. Last Night. The Southland Frozen Meat Company, pay a dividend of S per cent. They exnorted forty-five thousand sheep and lambs during the year. MASTKRTON, Last Night. Donald and Charles Cameron, when driving hmne late on Saturday night from their contract in a brake, went over a steep siding at Mauugapukeha, both were much injured, and were brought into the Masterton Hospital, where Donald died fast night.

BLENHEIM, Last Night. With reference to a telegram received by the Government from South Australia rn the apple insect, the contributor of the " Garden Notes " to the " Express " says : —"That the statement comes from Toowoomba, Queensland, to tin effect that fruiterers and practical gardeners there have exhibited at the '• Chronicle " office a bottle containing hundreds of live insects or small beetles which wero taken out of Califoruian apples just received, and these proved Apple Weevil (Anthony Mus (.vie) Poinonum), a more destructive post than the codliu moth." PORT CHALMERS, Last Night. Arrived : Hinemoa, from Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and County Islands. She has on board a skylight of a large ship, attached to which was a rope made from a large red and white cotten handkerchief, which had been torn in strips and knotted together, evidently for the purpose of tying someone. This! relict was picked up on the beach at Kwing Island, one of the Auckland proup. Capt. Fairchild reports all the depots in good order, and no signs of any castaways, and only one fur seal was seen during the trip.