TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1292, 28 June 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

' fFRR PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 A New Insurance Company. Auckland, To-day. Mr Godfrey Knight, Actuary and Inspector of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, has fixed Auckland as the head office of New Zealand. The local directors are Sir F. Whitaker, Hon J. Williamson and Dr Campbell. A Gun Accident. Thomas Fawcett, a Waikato settler, had his hand blown off while out shooting. A New Industry. The Freezing Company have decided to embark on the manufacture of Bulphuric acid. The Levee. Wellington, To-day. Abnut 150 gentlemen were present at the Queen's birthday levee held at the Government House to-day. A Heavy Failure. Mr W. Waring Taylor, one of tho oldest Wellington settlers, to-day, through Mr & Shaw, his solicitor, filed a petition to be adjudicated a bankrupt. Approximately, hia estate shows :—Liabilities, L 90.000; assets. L 70.000. A detailed statement will befiltd next week. Munificence. Chbistchurch, To-day. Mr George Gould has given LSO to the Technological Museum. This is his third donation this year. Degree Regulation?. DtrNtDiN, To-day. ' The University students, before adjourning last night, resolved —"That in the opinion of this meeting, the proposed regulations for the B.A. degree will tend to lower the standard for that degree ;" and " that the Chairman forward the resolutions passed to the Chancellor of the New Zealand University and cooperate with the students of Canterbury College in bringing the item before the notice of the Senate."