INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PRKBB AGENCY.!} DoNEbkk, Saturday night The vrmem i» advertised of a Company » e t ra Messr * Held and FenK Sith a ?-- wT* aDd m " im newspapers, £30 "f?n ? pl l al °f, £4 °' ooo iD £1 ° S», k *if °£ lled Up Lt is announced that half of the shares are already taken up by the provisional directors. These are the Honorables Reynolds and Sir J. Richardson, V } /am P Ibel 1 belI > Captain Fraser, Messrs Stout-, Judge Chapman, and John Reid, Dr.Hockin Leary (the Mayor), Marshall (of Marshall and Copelund), Guthrie and Larnach) ,- Hallenslein, Fenwick, Bastings (M.H.R.), and Haray (architect). The balance-sheet for last half-year, when audited, showed a profit at the rate of eighteen per centon the capital to be called up. Messrs Reid and Fenwick take 350 shares each, and are to retain the positions of editor and managing director for two years. Oabijlbw, Saturday night, bailed— schooner Elizabeth Curie for Nelson. _„ Dunedin, Monday. I here are twenty-five entries for the All Aged Stakes, and 30 for the Puppy Stakes at the Metropolitan Coursing Club's opening meeting on the 3rd of May at Palmers ton. The handicaps for the Dunedin Jockey Uubs Queen's Birthday Meeting are:— Hurdle Race-. Kildare, list; Camelia, lost 71bs; Black Bess, 9st 71bs; Baron, Bst lOlbs. Birthday Handicap: Titania,Bst lOlbs; Bide-a-wee,Bstslbs; Tommy Dodd, Bst lib; Blue Peter, 7st 4lbs ; Exile, 7st 21bs ; Oberon 7srCamelia, 6st lolbs; Contriver, 6st 3lba' Tradesman's Handicap: Titania, list; Bide-a-wee, Bst 71bs ; Chancellor, 7st 9lbs; Blue Peter, 7st 71bs; Exile, 7st 51bs; Oberon 7st slbs; Swede, 6st 12lbs; Bothwell, 6at lOlbsEndyraion, 6st slbs. WEiiiiNGTON, Monday. The price of mutton tallow should have been 39s 6d and not 37s 6d as given in Saturday's Loan and Mercantile Agent's telegram. The Wellington sailed for Picton and Nelson this afternoon. Passengers : Miss Pike Mr and Mrs Pirrond, Messrs Duncombe and Baker. The Colonial Insurance Company has appointed the Bank of New Zealand as its bankers for the Colony. Cheistchdkch, Monday. The publication of the accounts of the Canterbury Cooperative Society, recently wound up, has disclosed very bad management. Instead of being worked at a profit as the directors believed, there had been a loss throughout, and after allowing for losses there was a deficit of .£619. Through the business being so short lived the estate when wound up only paid 9s in the pound.