INTERPROVINCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2900, 16 February 1893, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, February 15. Wiremo Kingi Tematakatea, a noted Maori chief, died yesterday at Opua, near Opunake." In the Supreme Court to-day Mr and Mrs Russell, of Wanganui. are applying for an order to compel Mr E. W. JMills to transfer to Mrs Russell, his daughter, twenty-three shares in E. V. Mills and Co. Plaintiff* allege that the shares were presented to them as a wedding gift, but . never transferred. Defendant denies that lie intended to transfer the shares, butheld them for the benefit of his daughter, and she was receiving the annual dividends. In the action for the transfer of shares in E. W. Mills and Co., evidence was given that the shares had been transferred by Mrs Russell to Hogg by way of business. Mr Russell stave evidence that he and his wife had been forced into the action. Defendant had given him to understand, in 1889, that he would hold the shares for his caught sr, and would not allow them to be parted with. Mrs Russell was merely joined with flosrg as a matter cf law. Mr Briggs, Secretary of the Company, said that the shares stood in Mills' name, and not his daughters. They were paced in his •name in 1888 in trust for his daughterMr Mills said he had paid the dividends to his daughter by his own cheques. Judgment was reserved. The Otaki river is in great flood. James' house, above the railway bridge, is surrounded. A party proceeded with a boat to recover the occupants. If the rain continues thi3 will be the largest flood known here. Examination registers of Kohimarama Industrial School, so far as they have been preserved, show that the lad Armstrong, who told the Magistrate that he had only attended school about once a month, attended 2435 times in 5| years. This gives an average attendance of 210 days per year, tie is marked absent less than eight times per annum. One of the teachers, under whose c«e. he was, accounts for his having passed the first standard only b/ saying ho was an extremely dull boy, almost impossible to teach. It may be mentioned that the Institution was inspected regularly by the .Education Board's Officers. The Land and Income Tax paid to date amounts to Land Tax, £294,628 ; Income Tax, £58,497=£353.125. It is anticipated that the Income Tax will amount to £6900 over the estimate made by the Commissioner of Taxes, after allowing for reductions and concession i under the Land and Income Assessment Amendment Act, 1892. In the divorce case Snelgrove v Ewart, husband's petition, a decree nisi was granted. Respondent deserted her husband twenty two years ago, and counsel explained that until now the petitioner was unable to raise sufficient money to file his petition. The Government have decided to erect a building to cost £3000 to £4000 for the accommodation of the district land office and lithographic department on the site adjoining the Government printing office. Dunedin, February 15. A twelve-roomed wooden honse in Cargill street was partially gutted by fire this morning. The house was occupied by Mrs Dick as a boarding-house, and was fully covered by insurance-house £600 in the National ; furniture £150 in the Mew Zealand. The National Mortgage and Agency Company have given security for costs in an appeal to the Privy Council, in the' cage Scott v. Ritchie. The amount of security is understood to be £5000. The Hospital Trustees received about fifty applications for the position of matron at the hospital. The appointment was conferred on Miss Isabella Fraser, night superintendent at the Melbourne Hospital. Invjercabgill, February 15. The trial of Annie Bryne for the murder of her child by jumping into the Invercargill harbor is not concluded. The Crown prosecutor invited the jury to consider the question of the woman's sanity at the time. The defence is that the child slipped over the side of the jetty, and that accused had leaped in to save her.