INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1372, 16 October 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Wanganui, October 16

In the case of the -ational Mutual I.if Association v London, for slander, the jury last night returned a verdict of one shilling on the first count. The question of coats will bo argued before the Ch-ef Justice in Chambers. The case attracted considerable attention am mg the Inaurrance community, as the defendant, a Government Insurance canvasser, hn used word* tending to show that i, was not safe to insure in the plaintiff’s Company, and thereby had materially damaged the National’s bnaiuess. The defendant, when In the box, would not admit having said that tbe Company was unsonnd, bat acknowledged having used Statements of an eminent actuary that no Company could pay over 25 per cent, for n w business without endangering its stability, and then quoting figures to show that the plaintiffs Company paid 34 ,ei cent, leaving hts hearers to draw their own Inferences. Wellington, October 15.

The Evening Post to-night publishes a letter received In Wellington from a digger at Kimberley, from which (lie following is ex’racted :—“ 1 am now nn whathey call the Kimberley goldfields. I don’t know whatever caused a rush here. There has not one man cleared bis expanses yet. There mo about 300 mao here now, and I can confidently say there is not one m*n making wages M;n ar« olesring in hundreds every day, and more are not able to go, This rush will turn out to be the greatest duffer that was ever in tbe colonies. If it was in a place where there was any communication with the other colonies there would have been no rush here st all, but it was such an out of the way place that men could not send word back to atop the rush until the harm was dono. Another report is that gold can be gT if there was water. Now that is false als . ’'here is no gold here to pay If they had the Mississippi river.” The Colonial Insurance Company have issut-d a circui -r to the shareholders stating that fie debit balance at tbe close of last year has entirely disappeared, and a fair amount now stands to credit of profit and loss.

The Government have received no information re the New Z‘aland loan beyond that it was fl ‘at.id at slightly above par. With reference to the cable message from Australia in reference to tbe cable rates, Hovernnjent hope to send a reply to-ni rrow, bnt will npt at present state what they intend to do. Dunedin, October 15-

Four lads, from fourteen to sixteen, were convicted to dey of stealing oil drums from the Government. A detective stated that one firm hud lost ninetythree, and Government over one hundred One was ordered to come up for sentence When ca’l.ed on ; three received one mouth; and on soother charge one who is at pres--" t In gaol was sentenced to three months,