INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1397, 3 November 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckland, November 2. The opening cudicain ae-vice of the new premises { the Young Men’s Chris Man ’sarci.ttlon took plica to-day. It wa-i conducted by B shop Cowie la the presence of the clergy of various ileuom nations. The cost of the bnildiug is £B9OO. it is uudera ood that a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce wi'l be convened re the cable charges, The Finance Committee of the City C -uncll hive submitted a detailed repoit, recommending retrenchment to the extent of £13,382 p»r annum to establish the equilibrium cf the finances of ihe Corporation. Mr Napier, counsel for Penn, contemphtes applying for a change of venue in hia cas.'. Penn’s mother ha Jan interview with her son to-day. The girl Graham has made a et.ternent to the Crown Prosecutor. Sir M. O’Rorke, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has presented Colonel Rookh with a beautifully illuminated copy of a resolution passed by the New Zealand Parliament in 1855 for his services at the capture of Mararoa Pah A numerously attended meeting was held to-night to promote temperance special settlements under the Homestead Act in various pans of Raglan County. Mr W. Duncan, Cov.ntv Chairman of Raglan, and the Hon Mr Ohumberhin spoke in favor of the proj ct. Wellington, November 2. A magisterial enquiry was held this afternoon into the circumstances of the Jane Douglas striking a rock at KapiM on Sunday week Captain Fraser’s cerfficUe was suspended for a week, and he was ordered to pay the costa of the enquiry. T. -morrow will be generally observed as a public holiday, the occasion being the driving of the last spike of the WellingtonMmawstu Railway It is expected that 1000 will sit down to lurch at Waikanao tomorrow. Sir J Vogel left for Lyt e'ton in the Hineraoa at five this afternoon The Native prisoners who are incarcerated in the terrace G ol in connection with the late disturbance at Manaia will have undergone a month’s Imprisonment to-morn w. and all except Te Whiti will be released to-morrow morning. Dunedin November 2 In a case, in which a man was sued for an overdue newspaper subscript-on, In which the question was disputed as to whether he had countermanded the paper, three ju Hces refused leave <0 appeal, on the ground that they wished to discourage litigation. The Directors’ report of the National Insurance Company sho"rs i-he net ptemiums to have been £176 078, which, after making the usual provisions for unearned premium a, leaves with last year’s balance, a surplus of £ls 882. The ten per cent dividend abs-rbs £9805, and after iro-vidl.-tg for the estimated loss on mortgages £4320 h carried forward.