INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 242, 12 October 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Monday.

The sixteenth half-yenrly meeting of the South British lusurance Company was held today. The following is the report : — The Directors have pleasure in placing before tbe shaieholderß the following statement of accounts for the sixteenth half-yearly period ended 31st of August last. The income from fire and marine premiums bas been £63,765 8a Bd, ftud from interest and transfer fees, £5278 Os 6rl; total, £69,043 9s 2d; which, added to £2343 3s 5d brought forward from the previous half-year, makes a total of £71,386 12s 7d. The total expenditure has been:— Pire and marine losses paid and outstanding at the close of the books, £30,114 5s 3d; reinsurances, commissions, salaries, printing and advertising and general charges, £20,301 Os sd, leaving a balance of £11,971 6s lid to credit of profit and loss account, from which your Directors recommend the payment of

a dividend at the rate of ten per cent per annum. If the dividend be sanctioned by the shareholders it will be payable at the head office on tho 13th October, and at the branches on receipt of advice. It will be the duly of the shareholders to elect two Directors in place of the Hon H. Chamberlain and .T. Howard, Esq., who retire iu accordance (with the Articles of Association, but who are eligiblo and offor themselves for re-election. Tuesday. Arrived— -Australia from Sydney. The Borough of Parnell presented its Mayor with a silver cradle oh ah addition to hiß family. The Justices of the Peace waited upon Mr Whitaker, asking that the Sub-Inspector be restored to his lormer position of sergeant- ! major. Mr Whitaker promised to refer ; the matter to Wellington. A sergeant in plain clotheß will shortly commence enforcing the compulsory clatlaes of the Education Act. Captain Purvisj of If. M.S. Danae, has received a telegram f rom Commodqre Wilson 'instructing him to leave Auckland on the 18th instan't for Fiji- It is prdbable thdt the Dftnae will bring the' new Governor, and not the Emerald. The recent gold discoveriea wore in a block of 7000 acres, allotted as a Native reserve. The -Government are. taking steps to j verify the discovery. Tho yaclit Pearl capsized off Kauri Point, and a boy named Day was drowned. DrjNEDiN, Monday. At the City Court Alexander Weiler was sentenced to three months for obtaining money under false pretences. Tuesday. The concert in aid of St Patrick's Cathedral fuud last night realised £200. Invercahgill, Tuesday. A fire at Wyndham destroyed u stable und a number of outhouses. Bj a fjre at J. B. Button's farm at Garry j Owen, a large stable, together with a prize bull and the stalliou Pablo Fauque were | destroyed. Wellington, Tuesday. Mr Mansford bns received twelva mouths leave of abteuco, and will visit England. It is understood that he will draw full pay. ... Cubistchurch, Tuesday. A meeting will bo held on Thursday to form a Company to construct a railway from Iluruuui to Reef ton.'

Last week the Benevolont Society.relieved only 17 persons. Tho ketch Eagle is ashore in. Saltwater Creek.

Last night the premises of Samuel Stewart, "pawnbroker, were burglariously entered, and five gold wsfeches and oue gold brooch stolen. Three men have been arrested and another will probably be arrested this afternoon. A man named Charles Johnston, after being ejected from the City Hotel last night, kicked the door in. W. C. Sheppard atid Henry Coulan, barmen, seizad him, intending to give him in custod j, when ho drew ' » kuif* andinflicted a flesh wound on both. Ho was subsequently arrested by tha police,.