PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2606, 13 January 1885, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

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Nelson, January 12. Canterbury and Nelson having combined for the purpose of the scheme for construction of the railway from Springfield to Brunnerton, and thence to Nelson, at a meeting of guarantors held this afternoon it was resolved to send Home Mr C. Y. Pell, Mayor of Nelson, as delegate representing Nelson, and to act iu conjunction with Messrs Scott and Dobson, delegates from Canterbury. The necessary funds are being guaranteed and the delegates leave for London by the Tongariro in about a week.

Christchurch, January 12. Mr Justin Aylmer, Resident Magistrate at Akaroa, died early this morning.

Robert Day was this evening committed for trial on a charge of forging a cheque for £IOOO on the Bank of Zealand. The circumstances of the case are rather peculiar. The theory of the prosecution is that the accused got possession of the title deeds of two farms belonging to his father Daniel Day, that he went to the Bank of New Zealand with these and represented himself to the manager as his father and obtained an advance by depositing the deeds. Mr Andrews, who was acting manager of the bank at the time, swears that accused is the man to whom he gave the advance, but he previously described the man as “ rather grey,” whereas accused has no grey hairs visible to the ordinary observer. For the defence a number of witnesses swore that on the day the advance was granted at the bank accused was ill in bed and did not leave his house, (which is five miles from Christchurch), at all. Wellington, January 12. The following are the corrected figures received from the loan agents:— The total amount tendered was £4,130,000; tenders at £92 6s fid receive 65 per cent.; the average price of the loan was £99 10s Id.

Dunedin, January 13. At the City Court to-clay Hans Hansen was committed for trial for stabbing the second officer of the barque Scotia.

The Government Insurance Association have bought the property in Dunedin, known as Wise’s corner, which is a quarter-acre section in the heart of the city, for £35,500. This is equal to £358 per foot frontage to Princes street.