INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, July 27. The shareholders In the Auckland Timber Company met to day when : the agreement made by the directors to sail the Company's property to the Kauri Syndicate for £150,000 or £5 pet share W&s oonfirmnd.
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders ia the Auckland Gas Company was held to-day when a dividend of 8% 6d per share was declared. The balancesheet Bhowed a omdlt to profit and loss new aaoouat of £326.
The adjournod meeting of oreditors of Messrs W . J. Suiter and 00, brewers, took plaoa today when the Official Assignee was authorised to take an aotlon Id the Supreme Oourt to test the legality of the sale of the Jubilee hotel. la his statement Sotter said that his hotel had been sold to Griffiths, a nurseryman, who had afterwards mortgaged the property to Suiter. Another oreditor passed a motion that a public oxaminitlou of the debtor m the Supreme Oourt is desirable
The B.S. Wanaka whioh sailed south to-day took a quantity of goods supplied by Auckland manufacturers for the Proteotfoniat banquet at Wellington, The consignment Inoludes flour, Qermenlo blsoults, oonfeotlonery, mineral waters, oordials, sauces, honey, sugar, oysters, eto Other supplies are promised. The Auckland Industrial Association have written to Mr J. 0. Firth asking him to attend the banquet on their behalf. The shareholders In the Taapere Ex* tended Ooal Minning Company held their half-yearly meeting to-day when a dividend of Is and a bonus of 1b 6s per share was declared, thero being a balance of £9 8j 10) to ba carried to now aooount.
At a meeting of the Board of Education today, a report from the head master of the Free Night School ehowed that tho attendanoa of the latter, institution had slightly decreased daring tho past five months. The Chairman, Mr Upton, said he was not satisfied with the working of the night sohool. The attendance was largoly Interfered with — on Friday nighta especially —by rlnkitflf, football meetings and Volunteer parades. It' these things were more attractive to the youths it was not the doty of the Board to force the night school eduoatlon upon them. It was deolded that the head master and inspeo • tora be oonsnUed ati|to the best means of carrying on tho school.
In Chambers at the Supremo Oonrt today, before Mr Justice Gillies, application was made for a oertlfioate that a man named Ralph Fenwiek was of unsound mind and nnab'e to manage his affaire. FoDwiok'fl wife wos the petitioner, and Mr F. Moßfto appeared on her behalf. Fenwiok was questioned at Borae length by Mr Justice Gillies, and answered rationally He stated he had been m Avondale Asylum for a little over two years, and that on one occasion one of warders at that institution rushed at him, when he instinctively struck the warder. He (Fenwick) wsb at ocoe BcJzjd by four other officers, and a rope waa thrown about his body, and he was repeatedly etruok on the bead and almost rendered anooneoiouß. Fenwick was aaked to identify his wife, who was present m Oonrt, but he conld not do bo, stating, however, that his married life had been broken three times. Mr Jiißttoe Gillies mid that stronger evidenoe would have to be peodaoed to prove tint the man waa mad, and! the lojijry was adjourned till Tuesday,
Wru.ington, July 27, At the Magistrate's Court this afternoon a youth, Gtnr^o Henry Hodgetts, waa committed for trial on a charge of criminal aaaault on a child of tender yepra. Fol'owlag are the railway returns for the fiur weeks ending 23rd Jane, 1888: — North ißland, total £21,674 12s 4d, 72 63 per cent of revenue. Middle Taland, total £49,707 16a V.+; 56.86 per cent of revenue. Grand totar £7l,3B2 8i lid, 61,43 per cent of revenue. Ghrjstoitoroh, Joly 27. Sl^ort'y before four this afternoon Mr T f H. Potts, an old Eesldent of Qenterbnry, dropped dead m Mrs Sharland'o fanoy goods Bhop, Oolorao street. He was about 60 yeara old, nnd was a member of the Provincial Council ia by-gone years. He was one of the beßt natnralista m the colony, and was widely known by hip cedes of papers entitled " Oat m the Open.','
The second, annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Athlotio Association was held hero tonight. Tho following cluba wero represented :— Canterbury, Soofh Canterbury, Bun^dln, Southland and Hawkes' I3ay. IVflr Thomas Tee^betnjker, of Otalo, was elected president," Mr L. A. Onfl secretary and treasaror. New Zetland amateur ohamplon^lp events for the coming season wero arranged to be <eompated for as follows : — Mile and 100 yards nfc Nspler 5 mile, walking and 2§o yards at Ohrlstchuroh 5 quarter tulle apd long jarap at Timirn { two oall?3 and high jarap at Danodin { 120 hurdles and half mile at InveroarfflU. The number of records nnde dqrlng tho lat^t year were aooopted and passed, and sooao of tho rules wote {^mended. * I'tfyEßOAß^lx, JTuly 20, In tho Patriot Oourt to-day Judge Broid septenoed Goo. Duthie, a bankrupt, to four months' hard labor for falling to dleoover all hla property to the Deputy Assignee, with intend to defraud big oredltora. ' ' '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1904, 28 July 1888, Page 2
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