INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Tuesday. Payments of the Property Tax amounting . to £2000 were teceivetl at the Well figton office yesterday. The first instalment is due to-day, but in nearly all ihe cases bcth in--; stalments are paid together. Benjamin Ling, who formerly carried on an extensive, butchering business, here,. died suddenly last night.' The cause of death is believed to be apoplexy. Invjbkcaegilx, Tuesday. At the settling for the races'the following amounts were paid:— -Mr Princej-Derby £97. S.J.C. Handicap £96, Tradesmen's Handi- , cap £38, total £227; Mr P. Butler, Cup £142, Hurdles £38j tbtal.£lßO; Mr 11. Kidd", District Handicap £47, Hack Selling Races £14, total £Ql- t Mr ChafEee, Maiden £23, CouFolation £9, total £32; Mr R. P. Anderson, District Selling Race £19; Mr H. Goodman/Derby, second, £19; grand totals nett winnings, £535 k Dunedin, Tuesday. Adolph More'zon, late clerk to the Standard Insurance Company, has. been committed for trial on two further charges of embezzlement. One of the bodks plafc'ed - in (be custody of the Court was found to have beenfurtber mutilated, and it transpired that the prisoner and some of the Standard ' lusuraDce clerks had had access to it. .._ ' At a meeting of the Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company, *.he report was adopted after a lengthy, and warm discussion: The following motion was agreed ,to :-* " That the services of the managing directorbe dispensed with." A motion that the directors call a meeting of the shareholders for the purpose of considering the advisability of winding up the Company was negatived. . Chkistchorch, Tuesday. Another ca?e of incendiarism is reported from the north. Some stacks, insured : for £160 in the Standard, were burned down on Saturday. The police have a clue to the offender. With regard to the ■ case reported last week a neighbor states that with the. aid! of a field glass he saw a man deliberately. Bet; the stacks on fire with a torch which he. carried from one to the other* „ . : Napler, Tuesday. . Another attempt was made yesterday to evict the natives from Mount Vernon, hut: it! wes not successful. A fire at the Albion Hotel yesterday destroyed a stable in, which was stored some furniture and part of the stock in trade. The total loss is about £300, uninsured. . This is the same stable which was partially: destroyed by fire about a month ago. . • 0 A jiabu^' Tuesday. ; A stack of oats on the farm': of Major Evaoß was burnt yesterday. There were 14 stacks on the farm but only one was destroyed. It was insured. " -' ! An accident happened at the Waitaki bridge yesterday. A buggy capsized at the end of the bridge arid the occupants were thrown out and Mrs 3?rew; wife of a farmer; had her skull fractured. The others escaped. . • .;;-•-: Gbeymotjth, Tuesday; ! The Welcome mine at- Reef ton turned out 646 oudccs of amalgam- from 100 tons of quartz; United. Alpine, Lyell, 336 ounces of atmlgani from 166 tons of quart z ; Golden, Fleece, Reef ton, 238 ounces of amalgam from 138 tons of quartz. The Nil Desperaridum Company struck stone on Friday estimated to go at least one ounce to the ton.