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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 121, 22 May 1879, Page 2

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; ! [PRKSS AGENOr-1 : . I . Wellington, Thursday. I ; The Government will introduce a Bill next Session ito provide for a Police Superannuation Fuad.,. ..■..' v - "Tha ctiiiauf or i£Bo made against Mr Motiteith, a chemist,.' for improperly\treating a man's hand injured by the\bu,rstiDg of a soda water bottle, was disallowed; judgment being for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff did not attend regularly before going to the Hospital . ; .;. The officiar estimate of the value of property in the colony taxable under the Land Tax Act is:— Auckland, £3,235,000; Hawke's Bay, £3,899,079 ; Wellington, £7,983,361 ; Nelson, £3,ooo,ooo; Canterbury, £15,790,000Otago, £16,800,000. Total, £50,707,400. This at a half-penny in the pound will yield £125,625 per year. The Wellington "district includes the Wellington and Taranaki Provincial districts. The Nelson district includes the Nelson, Marlborough, and VVe3tport Provincial districts. The HawkeY Bay district includes the Hawke's Bay Provincial district and the Cook County. '~~^ The Reform Football Club play tier the 30th by electric light. : - ' " Messrs Moorhouse and Edwards' offices had a narrow, escape from fire lasl night from an incendiary who set fire ta the papers through the window after the offices were closed. „. A< large number' of working men are at present out of employment consequent upon the generally depressed times, and the number of unemployed is increasing. House reits which up tQ very ■ recently were very high, are now, .rapidly falling; and there is an unusual number of empty tenements. It is 3tated that Mr Fordwood has given up the idea of accepting! the second Ptesident Magistrateship in consequence of the Parliament not having provided any money for ! that office. - ■ The drapers as a body have resolved to j keep the Queen's Birthday Holiday on Monday. . • It appears that the insurance on Moorhouse and Edwards' offices was only £40, though all the adjoining premises are well insured. The Hospital Committee of the City Council and several tredical men met yesterday to consider what steps should be taken for organising a system of management for the Hospital in future. The general opinion seemed to be in favor of supporting the institution by voluntary contributions. It was agreed that the medical men of the City should be invited to draw up a written report embodying their vfews. Between 80 and 90 beds are now occupied in the wards, which are thus rendered so crowded that instead of each patient having 1200 cubic feet of air there is but COO or 700. The opinion of the medical 'men was that it would be unadvisable to remove the Hospital from its present site, otherwise the doctors practising in town would not be likely to undertake the work of honorary surgeons Jas. Huxley, a well-known tailor, has called a meeting of his creditors There were 103 failures in New Zealand during the week ending Saturday last. Gleich, the bankrupt, and Cowan, the bigamist, are remanded to Adelaide, and will leave here under charge of Constable Mack on Saturday nest. ' a^u •• Westport, Thursday. At the inquest on the body of Mrs Crawford her husband said she got up to come to Sheehan's for him at half-past three in the morning. They went home together and had no words. She was usually sober. She then went out at the back door. The medical testimony went to show that death was not caused by drotvuiug. H er shawl was tied round her neck coveriog her head.' The verdict was : « Death from suffocation, cause ' unknown." ™ t, v , New I'lymouth, Thursday. Mr Robert McMulhm and his family have arrived at Waitara from Mokau. He says that he has «iveu up the attempt to live on hi 3 land, and lutemls to live ou his property in the Mokau district. Grauamstowx, Thursday. A home for destitute child.eu and an Old Men's Refuge are about to be erected here ■ The special wire system is to be extended to here next month. mv n CirniSTCHtJßcir, Thursday. - Abe Government will not undertake to provide the unemployed with work, they not being newly arrived immigrants. The Government will now be asked to subsidise the local bodies to enable them to find work for the unemployed. At the annual meeting of the Cricket Association the following motion was proposed: It is the opinion of the Association that the interests of encket would be furthered if the local papers abtained from publishing accounts of the Association's matches except such accounts as are sent by the Secretary of the Association." The following amendment was carried. « The Association does not hold itself responsible for any criticisms in matters connected with cricket that may appear in the local papers unless authorised by the Association." The financial position oi tne Assoc;ation is satisfactory. Hortland and Secretan have the highest averages at 33 and 24, and C. Firth the best bowliue average. " „. _, Dujjedin, Thursday, lhe Bruce Herald ha 3 been resuscitated in a reduced shape.