INTERPROVINCIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3201, 31 December 1892, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIL.

(BV TELKttKAPH.— PItFSS association - .j WELLINGTON, Last Night. Mr McLean', Government veterinary surgeon, has resign "I, nrvl sever* his connection with th« Unvernment service at the. end of the vear. The Storsk Department is sending to Englaud for two vet»rinarv_si]rpeons—one to be stationed in the North and the other in the South Mam!—who will be required to travel through the Islands investigating all nintt n rs connected with stock and giving information to farmers. The amalgamation of the Justice and Native departments takes place on Wednesday next. Mr HaseMen, Under-Secre-tary for Justice, will have charge of the amalgamated department, and Mr Waldeerave will be chief clerk. Mr Morpeth, Acting-Under-Seeretary of the Native Department, is to be removed to the Native Land Court office. Mr A. T. Bates, private secretary to the Native Minister, has tendered hiR resiznation.Jt being his intention to enter into business in Wellington. TIMARU, Last Night. The co-nperative works, on the Mount Cook road, have been closed, and the parties paid off to-day. They avenged about 8a a day, o.ne party of tho best averaged 9s 9d all through. For the £-100 voted two miles were made over tho worst part. LYTTELTON. Last Nieht. William Dennison, an old offender, now sentenced to 12 months' for vagrancy, escaped from the hard labour gang this morning. The gang were road making in Oxford-street, and it is supposed Dennison slipped behind a gorse fence, and under that cover got away. A large body of marines and police are now out after hiiri.