AUCKLAND. May 1.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8172, 2 May 1895, Page 3

AUCKLAND. May 1.

The South Brfciph Insur nice Company has received ciblo advice tlmb at a mootintf of tho slnrolioUlors of the Mutual Union Fire and. Marine In^uvinoe Con« pany of T.Biuauia the »f?ieemeut to disp>so of tho company's business to tho South British, which was arrmged by Mr K'rkor during bis recent visit to Austialia and Tasmania, was unanimously ratified. luspeotor Eaierson, six constables, and 05 navvies from tho South, proceed to It >torua, en route for Galatea, whero a camp will ba formed, and tho latter on-g-tged on co-opora'ivo road works. Wnnganui and other nvivos Imvo arrived at Otorohangi. They withdrew t heir claims to-day fr >m tho Native Land Court in this way: Origin*! claim f<> investigition, dealing with over GO.OOO acre', withdrawn from tho Court, besides the subdivision caso** and successions. Patrick James Fnh was found dead in his hut nestr Holonsvillo, and an iuqutst was held at which it \sm found that ho had died from internal hemorrhago through bursting an aneurism. At a meeting of tho Auckland Women's Liberal L aguu a discussion took place an old age pension^, and it was hugg '{-ted th it a curtiiin quantity of land should bo aot apart for iho purpose of providing funds for a sch"ina, and a resolution approving of a pension sdijmc carried.