INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume xvx, Issue 228, 25 September 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

r -\ , ' Wellington,--, Saturday., S At a meeting of officer's ''-of Volunteer • Gorpsit-f waa^decided to hold a. review on the racecourse on the/Prince of Wales' birthday. A letter was received froih the Town Clerk asking the Volunteers to .co-operate, in receiving Sir Arthur Gordon. *-- v -■. A meetibgiof shareholdfefa in Jhe- Welling-/ ton Trathtvay Cbmpttny was held last night for the purpose of considering the following proposition from" the purchasers of the line :-r, Th'B purchasers '-.pf the\line offer to pay all debfia. of the Company and, to refund to allshareholders who have actually paid up their shares to the extent of £4 or inoreia cash^a' 1 sum equivalent to the sum which such shareholder^ would be „e,ntitled to "wtfole capitalof thbCpmpany \yere paid up,L ahji if the. vjho\e sUm^j which, og the|jmostf iatbrabioUßtimate^could he reeoveredfromthe promoters' had actually been recovered and paid in cashjnand if certaitrahareholdersj who are alleged to have wronjjly^urrendered* thoir shareirwete^plafced upon the list of con-"" f prJ,he. full value of - tbeit surrendered fbarea. ; It was unanimously, rB--isdi-Ted to-accept the offer. : - -' ----■ -<■* John Watson, a lamplighter in the employ pf^the. Corporation, .-jfttlemp.ted^s.uicide^his,. morning by taking two and a-half ounces of laudanum, but the dose was too .strong and acted as an emetic, and he is , now out of danger. \ Mr Macdonald, auctioneer, continued his sale of jewellery last night, and" the /police laid a second information for a breach of thb Act. The c*seS will beheardon Tuesday, i A public inquiry info the charges of /illtreating a prisoner bjr constables wi.il be held on Wednesday morning before the Magistrate. " - -,- - I Dunedin, Saturday, j A small store and dwelling, house on thfe Anderson's Bay Road was burned down laß.t night. .--.. j . At Saiuson's pit, Green Island,, several meu have been thrown out of employment by fire caused by the. subsidence of the bottom stratum which engendered heat, and subsequently causing ignition. •"''.'-. „ ! At a special meeting of the Colonial Clothing Company yesterday it;was .'decided to wind up voluntarily and- a committee was appointed to investigate the circUOastanceji under which the late Secretary produced a credit balance sheet when it had since been proved that there was at the time a debit balance of £&00. | TiMAJau, Saturday, j Geraldino Races — second day — Geraldlne Cup : Virginia Water, 1 ; Mario Antoinette} 2 ; Clarence, 3. Ladies' Purse..: Lone-Hand;, 1 } Levant, 2. County - Plate : v Lubra, li Consolation Handicap : Levant, 1. CniusTCHuncH, Saturday. Mr White&rd gave judgment last night it i the enquiry into the loss of the ketch : Saral and Mary, to the following effect : — That nc satisfactory evidence has been given toac-j count for the origin of the fire, and that the whole evidence given by the master and mate was thoroughly unreliable and untrusfc^ worthy. Costs, amounting to £35 19s. 3d., to he paid by the master of the vessel. j Arrangements have heen almost completed with regard to a cheap trip to the Melbourne exhibition. The steamer Hero has. been' selected, and she is to accommodate 150 ex-j cursionists. The route will be Lyttelton toj Wellington, thence to Sydney, staying threedays there, and .thence to Melbourne. " To, stay there six days, and then back to Sydney J and on to Auckland, where the steamer willremain for two days, and thence to Lyttel-j ton. The fare, including board and residence,; will be eleven guineas. i A serious accident happened, to Jamesj Taylor, second mate of the ship Camperdown.i this morning./ He was superintending the bending of a sail on tho mizea top-gallant yard, when he fell from the yard into the) mizen top, lodging in the netting on thej after side of /the top, which broke his fall j considerably.' His escape from instant death was miraculous, as, had he not struck th«| netting,' nothing could have saved him. j /At the Lyttelton Times amateur performance "for the Sick Fund .last night there wasj a crowded -house; . - r/! :-£i . j At a meeting of the Chamber pt Commerce | yesterday, the following resolutions werej passed :-r-J.. That A in.,the ppinion pf this Com-j mittee, litis desirable that /all deposits re-j ■quired-under- the average -bond • frbrii Consignees' of- goods,- -should' be paid- into* the hands of trustees. —3.-' -That a telegram should be sent to the of the Melbourne Chamber* <bf- Commerce enquiring if ! tlie deposit- demanded «- in Melbourne from consignee's- is> to -be>paid--to trustees', or l . the shipowners.- - -'*'■- ■"■'■'■ -'■•"'■ -. •''' --.Auckland, Saturday;-. ' : Ten-un employed -have -applied to } the Council for stone breaking. , i The New Zealand Prudential Assurance ; ; Sooiety held a special meeting Inst night and j adopted absolution !for.. a levy-of fifty-per ' cent upm the present contributors extending over six months,^ ifi'; order to liquidate outstanding cliims; The "meeting was very lively, and some of thestarehqlderaidT.dcated prosecuting McKune. in-,the. course of the discussion it transpired that' the qhlcash book before 1 the Societyjvas*'reßuscitated was stolen. Several members expressed regret at being .connected with' the Society.;*, i.r