INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
(P£B PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) • Ohbistohuroh, December 14 The ilxteenth annual repoit of the directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company, to be submitted »t the general meeting on Tuesday next gives the balance ■heet as Adopted At the London meeting on December 5. This shows a profit for I the past year, after providing for ill oharges and for Interest, of £99,907 10s 9d, to whloh Is added £14,663 4i transferred from Insurance to profit »nd loss account. The appropriation Is as follows : — Depreciation of steamers and ships £54,890 10s 2d ; depredation hnlks ref rigerato a etc £20,285 17* 6d ; provision for loss on sale of Walketo and Wanganal £9615 8s 3d ; reduotlon of deficit £29,778 18 1 11 1. The defiblt then stands •t £82,336 15s 94. Dunbdin, December 13 Tt is dtated that the whole season's output of obaeßß from the Sore Faotory has been sold for 6d per lb on tracks »t the Bluff. Auckland, December 15 3?A miner named Bradehaw died at Meroury Bay on Friday, having been poisoned by eating tupakl berries. A correspond ont of tbe "Herald " la the authority for the statement that a difficulty has nrlson in regard to the purobase of the Rotorua township by the Government, and that three Native chiefs of liotorua have deoided to bring actions againat the Government for £15,000 damages for breach of agreement Another offneo of housebreaking was committed on Friday night or Saturday morning, when the store of W. H. Lyons, gum merchant, Fort street, was broken and flnterod. The offices paportj, oto., were disturbed, but the Intruders found no booty, all the money having been taken from the store in accordance with Mr jyoos' oaetom. No afreet has yet been made Blenheim, December 15. ISfawa has boon received that 61b tius of mqtton, preserved at the Boga Faotory here, realised, in London, 6$ per lb. Dunedin, December 15, I A four roomed nnocoupied house, the properly of tbe Hon W. t£. Reynolds, was buuned down at 6 a.m to day. There is no olue to the origin of the fire.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2303, 16 December 1889, Page 2
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348INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2303, 16 December 1889, Page 2
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