INTERPROVINCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3070, 19 March 1892, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(BY TELKORAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, Last Night. It is notified in to-night's Gazette that the Hon. John Carroll has been sworn in as a member of the Executive Council. The appointment of Mr William Stewart asR.M. tor Taranaki district, with extended jurisdiction to £100, is alsc Gazetted. The Chief Justice has ordered the libel case of George Hutchison v. Ballancean'J Boyle to be heard at Wanganui, before a special jury of twelve, on the sixth prox. An old soldier named Gloysh has died in the Wellington Hospital at the aee ol 83. He joined the Royal Marines, Ply mouth Division, during the latter part ol the reign of George IV., and was stationed at Lisbon when that monarch died. He served under William IV. and her present Majesty, and came to the colonies with the 25th Regiment. A young man named Joe Perkins, agec 19 years, is supposed to have beoi drowned in the Ruamahanga River, neai Grey town. He went to cross at 8 a.m., and his horse was found with the bridli broken on the opposite side. After an unusually long spell of dry weather, heavy rain fell yesterday, and is pouring to-day, 'the man Anderson's account of tin affair in which he was nearly killed i: that he considered the place he entere( waa a brothel, and paid in the usual way and was afterwards attacked by Millar The police are enquiring into the ante cedents of Millar and the woman wtv passes as his wife. DUNEDIN, Last Night. Mr J. W. Thomson, member for Bruc has resigned his seat in Parliament. The Dunediu Jockey Club has endorse the Wanganui Club's disqualification c the bookmakers Yuille, Nathan and Ma for layiug totalisator odds. They hav also resolved to otfer £10 reward on th conviction of any person laying or accepi ing totalisator odds on the Forbury Raci course, and to absolutely prohibit ca,s betting. ______________