INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1369, 13 October 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckuno, Oct>ber 12,

The report and balance sheet issued by the Sou h British Insurance Company for the year ending 3lat August, and to be submitted to the shareholders tomorrow, shows an income of £246 ?CO, and the general expenditure £256,048, leaving a balance to debit of profit and loss at ob sing of the books of £9348, It is understood that Dr. Cremonl, from Horton House, London, with sevao-> teen years’ ex perience, hra been appointed Medic d Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, vice Dr Young, resignedWavgandi, Oc'ober 12. In the Supreme Court a prisoner named Wood, indicted for forgery, plead*'" guilty. The Probation ttficer mad' J report in favor of allowing tte ' R out on probation. The Chief Just' J willing to give the prisoner U»' j oaefit and was preparing the pap®' j called on the Constable to , whether he knew anything ahop' th * isoaer The reply was that ho was suspected . f stealing at Naper. The j £ theil ordered prisoner b* ck into custody pending Investigation * r

_ . Napier, October 12 lor t»l»i> g a pi C ( Ure on Sunday a travelling photographer waa fined 2a,

Kaikoura. October 12. —■ jeantlful fish, pronounced by ex P 0r j t.> be a Californian salmon, was caught in a net in Inglis day, yesterday.

Wellington, October 12,

A meeting of a few of the Wellington shareholders of the New Zealand Shipp ng 0 -mpany was held to-day, the object being to consider the present position of the Company’s affairs. It was resolved that the headquarters of the Company in New Zealand be removed from Christchurch to Wellington, and that steps be taken to secure such necessary change. The resolution was agreed to, there being but one dissentient, and it was farther decided to convene » meeting of the whole of the Wellington shareholders for Thursday, 20th inst., to discuss the proposition in a more ample and more public form. Oaiaaru, October 12.

The body of a child apparently three or four weeks old, was discovered buried in a hole at the north part of the town today. The body was in advanced stage of decomposition, but la fearfully mutilated. One of the leg* was cut off by the hip, and the head, arms, and other parts of the body were cut and backed about. The mother of the child is known, bat the police only discovered that something was wrong the other day, and to-day found the body bnrled In the garden. An Inquest will be held to morrow.