PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 2738, 1 July 1885, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[united press association.] Dunedin, June 28. The City Council selected Mr W. Robertson, who has been for a number of years secretary of the Fire Brigade, as captain of the new paid body. S. S. Hutchison, who was arrested at Auckland for fradulent insolvency, came up at the bankruptcy sitting for examination, but it was not concluded. The examination did not disclose anything very new. Having built the Caversham Gasworks with assistance from the Bank, and Messrs Royse, Stead and Co., they were offered to Hutchison for L 45,000, and he floated a company in London to which he sold them for LIOO.OOO, but he only received cash L4OOO. June 30. Mr Robert Gillies has forwarded his resignation of the Bruce seat to the Speaker, owing to the state of his health. Auckland, June 29. Margaret M'Quond, servant at Mr Langans, in Ponsonby, was found dead in a water-closet yesterday with a newly-born infant alongside of her. Death resulted from the loss of blood at childbirth. John Bradley, a cabman, was thrown from his cab, and died from concussion of the brain. Nineteen Chinese were arrested last night while playing fan-tan in a Chinese gambling house in Wakefield street. Later. In the Chinese gambling case, the keeper of the house, Gong Kee was fined £5 and costs, and 18 other offenders, 10s and costs. Christchurch, Jnne 29. At a well-attended special meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce hel-i to-day, a series of resolutions condemnatory of the proposed alterations in the Customs tariff was agreed to. The resolutions affirmed that, in the opinion of the Chamber, the new tariff ia calculated to be prejudicial, not only to the agricultural and commercial, but also to the manfacturing and general interests of the colony. Wellington, June 29. At a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce a resolution was tmanimously passed deprecating any important change in the tariff of 1882.