INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2890, 22 January 1891, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

_♦ ——- (by Tlil.Eilll.U'U"l'llEss ASSOCIAVION;. LYTTELTON, Lust Night. A YOUXfi man named Albert E. Hiirmor who was subject to fits, was drowned in the harbour this morning. At the inquest a verdict of death from drowuiug v.hile iu a fi. was returned. 1 NVERCARi iILL Last Night. The Hineinoa is under orders to sail 1.0-night for the McQuarries should the Kakanui not arrive before. The latter has now been away four weeks. DUNEDIN. Last Night. .1 • ihn Morrison, a brother of the member o f Hie firm of Messrs Audt rlou and 'Morrison, plumbers, died at Waipori from taking ar. overdose of liMidauum. There is considerable dissatisfaction in various trades owing to the leading chemists and butchers breaking through the early closing movement. Tho Pharmaceutical Society insist that a clause be inserted in the Shop Tlour's Bill to enable the majority iu cities to fix tho hours of closing, CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The Australasian Association, for the advancement of science, met as usual this morning, papers being read in tho various sections. A number of members left for an excursion trip co the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory and Belfast Freezing Works. Tho biolo gical section of the association passed a resolution recommending that the Little Barrier Island aud Resolution Island, in Dusky Bay, be set ap.irt as a reserve, where the native floi a, of New Zealand, could be preserved from extinction. WELLINGTON. Last Night. The weather has been very uncertain for the hist few days, but it has cleared up now, and promises to be line for the regatta aud races, to-mor-?ow. DANEVIIIKE, Last Night.

Mr Smith, M.H.R. for Waipawu, was banquetted in the Town Hall last evening. There were 120 present, ineluding Mr IV. L. Rues, of Auckland, lion. J. Ballanec was absent through illness. Mr Smith met-with a splendid reception, aud during the evening ho was presented with a purse ot lUOsovs. Messrs Reus and Smith left f..r Wellington to-day.