NEW ZEALAND

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2230, 21 April 1881, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND

[PBB rSIIBB ASSOCIATION,! AUCKLAND, April 21. Bank of New Zealand. The Bank of New Zealand's half-yearly meeting report shows a net profit of £76,454 ; balance from last half, of £28,337 ; total for division, £99,801; dividend and bonus, 15 per cent, £75,000; balance by profit and loss, £24,801. The report was eiopted.

Another Lamp Fire.

The residence of Mr Hancock, of the United Service Hotel, at Epsom, was totally destroyed by the explosion of a kerosene lump. Mr Hancook was absent, and Mrs Hancock got up to attend to a child, when the explosion occurred and set fire to a bed curtain, Mrs Hanoock having overturned the lamp. The flames spread so rapidly to the curtain and furniture that she only escaped in her night-drei s, and everything was lost. Mr Hancock was insured in the New Zealand for £I4OO on the house and furniture. This does not half cover the loss. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 21. Revealing Census Secretslie the privacy of the census papers, a correspondent writes to the "Herald" that papers forwarded to the office he found amongst some goods sent to carpenters who were employed in building a house for him near Stratford. Every one of them was complete, no names being out off, and they belonged to the census taken in 1867. Ten were found by him. Most of them he destroyed. Two are now in the possession of the editor of the " Herald." WELLINGTON, April 21. Scot FreeA charge against Fred. Marsland Hadfield of being an accomplice in the alleged stealing •f 1000 sheeep off a run in Wairarapa, was dismissed, no evidence being offered. Pass meIn oonsequenoe of the danger attached to passing through the French Pass, captains of vessels in port are drawing up a petition to the Ministerial head of the Marine Department to take immediate steps to have suitable lights erected where required. Shipping-

The barque Orownthorpe, 133 days from Londc n, is at the Head*. BLENHEIM, April 21. Agricultural ShowThe Marlborough Agricultural Show was held yesterday, and was the most successful one for years. The exhibits were excellent and numerous. At the dinner in the evening, the " Lyttelton Times' " correspondent, who responded to the toast of " The Visitors," described a recent visit paid by him to the Picton coal fields, describing their extent so far as they have been discovered, and predicting a grand result from their discovery. He said that since he visited the field, he had met Mr Blair, engineer in charge of the Middle Island, and direoted his attention to samples brought to Blenheim, and that Mr Blair expressed the highest opinion of them. Death of a Pressman. Mr Lionel Brown, journalist, died this morning. WANGANTTI, April 21. DeathMr Thos. Feake, architect;, was found dead in his house last night. It is surmised he had a fit. He leaves a widow and family in Ohristohurch. Tally-Ho! The hunting season commences in Wanganui on the first Saturday in May. Mr Bradley, of Otago, assumes the mastership, his pack of hounds and the local pack being amalgamated. DUNEDIN, April 21. To Farmers. An important intimation was made known at yesterday's meeting of the Land Board, that is, the eoheme on foot by the Education Commissioners for the sale of large Education Reserves in this province, and for finding the proceeds for education purposes. This means the opening of a vast extent of land for settlement. Hair Splitting in BancoIn Moritzon's case, the Judge intimated that he would reserve for the Appeal Court the point whether the evidence showed the commission of the technical offence of em. bezzlement.