INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 74, 25 September 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(F£B PBESB ASSOCIATION.) Auckland. September 23. Tho balance-sheet of the South British Insurance Company for the year ending 21st Augnst last shows a profit for the year of £24,502. A dividend of 10 per cent, was declared. A meeting of the legal profession was held to-day to arrange an address for presentation to Dr. Giles, 8.M., on his retirement from the Bench next month. Two old identities are dead — Mr W. Motion, of the old firm Low and Motion, and Mr Georgo Burgoyne Owen, director of the New Zealand Insurance Company. "Wellington, September 23. Dr. Lostalot Bachouc, who has been on a holiday to New Caledonia, states the island is depressed in sympathy with Australia, but signs of revival are not wanting. The mineral resources are being vigorously developed and nickel ore has been found nearly the|most important product of the colony. He does not think there is any ground for the rumor that Franco is willing to sell Caledonia to Russia, though she might be disposed to exchange it for another island. Fifteen Maori chiefs met Judge Mackay to-day and had tho provisions of tho Native Lands Purchase and Prosecution Bill explained to them. They desired that it should bo translated and circulated among the Natives and time given for consideration. Until then they could not express au authorative opinion. This Day. Reports come from the country districts of the excessive mortality of lambs through the continued wet weather. The equinoctial gales are of a particularly mild character, and no rain. The wind is not more than a capful though the spring equinox is usually very severe here. The bankrupt Kirk's case was before the Court again and a compromise arrived at. Kirk was adjudicated a bankrupt and released without bail upon condition he came up for examination by the Assignee to-morrow. Mastehton, September 23. In one or two instances in Opaki lambs are dying of an unknown complaint which causes their hoofs to drop off. The complaint is different from foot rot, llokitiu'a. fioptombor 23. Mr Bovan, tho former member for thu district and tho defendant in the reoent libel action, Michtiel v Bevau, was presented with an address and purse of eovereigus last night, as a token of dissent from the finding of the jury iv face of the judge's summing up.