INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2238, 27 September 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PKR PEKBB ASSOCIATION.)

Whlxhtgtok, September 26 Judgment wjb entered up m the Supreme Oonrt against the British and Oolonial Property, Finance, and Assurance Oom* pauy (Limited), at the suit of the Photalx Insuranoe Sooletys of London for £356 It lOi, amonnt of re-msuranoe on the stock of Mrs Walker, milliner, whose premises were gutted by fire on the 4»h of July last,and added ootU of the aotlon; The writ was served on the defendant Oompany about a fortnight ago for tbe proportion of losb, amounting to £342 3i lOd, and as no defence waß filed within the required time judgment went In 4ue course. The defendant Company has lti head quarters In Melbourne, and is quite a young institution! It was incorporated on the 23rd of April, 1888, and oom* menoed its Now Zealand business In April, 1889. A memorial of the jadgment ha«. been taken under t n .e seal of the Oourt for tbe purpose of enforcing the judgment In Viotori*.

Passengers by train from Pulmerston to-n!ght report that the noise of a great explosion was beard about six o'olock. People were ecqutripg abont it at tha various stations passed from Shannon to Palkakarlki, but no one oonld give any explanation. The police hare kaownoth* Ing about it beyond the fact that some sort of explosion was heard.

Under date September 25tb, the " Gazatte ' to-night announces the acaept* aooe of Mr Uielop'a resignttlon as Colonial Secretary by the Governor.

Master-ton, September 26. In the. District Oonrt yesterday before Judge Robinson and a jury, Thomu Maxtad, of PahUtna, aned the Bank of New ZaaUnd foi £200 foe dlahonorlDg hii ohcqaa for £2, when funds were to his oredit. The verdlot waa for plaintiff foi £25 and £6 6s costs. A largely attended meeting o( the publlo, held last night, passed a resolution oondemning the Rabbit Aot and lti administration m North Wairarapa district, also that the Government be asked to supply the settlers wl*h rabbit-proof netting at a low rate, the Government to make wire netting a legal dividing fenoe, and to contribute to the ooat of ereotlng the same betvoen settlers and Grown lands where their properties join; • ' " DpßßDilt, September 26. The divorce puse.' I)'Alb.edyhU v D'Albedyhll, was concluded this evening. At submitted to the Jury tbe case became one not for divorce but for judicial separation on tho ground of cruelty. The isßueß as to the adultery were answered m the negativp, but the jury conld not agree as to the <BBue whether the husband had been guilty of cruelty, As there was no prospeot of even a three fourths verdiot. the jury were discharged, and on terms arranged, fj verdict was taken as to* the adnltevy charges. *' ' : ■ J ''' "*?"