INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 218, 5 September 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Hokitika, Monday. A teniflc gale was experienced la*>t uight. Several shop fronts were blown in, and windows, roofs, and fences were destroyed in all directions. DoNEDit?, Monday. Horan, the post-office clerk charged with stealiug papers from the post-office, was acquitted, there being no evidence of ielonious inteuti.n. The annual meeting of the Standard Insurance Company was held to-day, "when the report and balance Bheet were read and adopted. The recommendation on tbe report was that a dividend of 6s per share lor the half-year bs declared and-carried to the credit; ofthe capital-account, which would make the shares then stand at 12s 6d. paid up; 40 per cent, of the-surplus to be carried to ,the credit of the revenue fund, 30 per cent, to be.pald to P-licy-holders in*the company* whose accounts •show a credit. balance for tlie preceding twelve months, the 'remaining 30 per cent, to be also carried to the reserve lund; the capital would thati^ stand at £31,250, and the reserve fopd at; -5*2,810. * < -*.• ,' Chbistcrohch, Monday. Two attempts were made to-day to shift the Clematis, but owing to the gear carrying away operations were suspended until to-morrow morning. Blenheim, , Tuesday.. Mr and Mrs Flcby and Mrs Bassett were drowned last night; while crossing iv a trap at Viekerhiau's Pord,'Wafraii River. Two of the bodies have been found. *-