INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1919, 15 August 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

i (pee press assoofatiok.) Auckland, Au>uat 14 Taeforodog talegraai with "reference lo tbo shipment of aoriferous ore to the Melbourne Exhibition hss been reolvec? by tho Chamber of Commerce : --"Government agreoa that all b'ona.fide exhlb ; ta m»y be sent frej of duty, without any ooodltlons." A publio meeting was held at Port Albert on Thursday, whoa res ;lutlona waro paoaed m favor of retrenchment m the public expenditure, and protesting jiga'ost Incroaaed taxation. " Napier, August 14, • Two oases, which are to some extent side laaues ariaiDg from the Reo&ta will' owe, wiil be commenced at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday, n:id are cxc t-' fng great intereafc. In hf=! evidence m the will oaae Mr F. \. Lnckie, oomuiißsion sgent of Haftlngs, stated that he waa insolvent through the defalcations of ! B. C. Ware, hia cslerk, who hadembczz'ed «» a A ly T, £400 bel °Dg«ng to Mr Tanner, ! M 8.R., for whom Mr Luckie acted aa i agent. Mr Luokie further atated that he held Ware's written confession. Ware on this lodged aa information for perjury against Luokie. He alleges that hq B igned i the letter to shield Luckie, and on a promise that It ehould be destroyed after belog shown to Me Tanner. Mr Luckie has retaliated by initiating a prosecution for embezzlement against Ware; It is stated by relatives of the lite Perclval Bear, who died at Halcombe the other day, that the Government Insurance Department refuse to pay hia life policy of £100, m force for eighteen years, on the ground that ho was insured as Perolval Bear, the name by which he always went: I while it now transpires hfs name was I James Perclval Baar. Subscriptions are being raised for the widow and children.