LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1206, 20 November 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION]. ! DUNEDIN, Nov. 18. I Mr. Seaton, member for the Peninsula, was thrown out of his buggy in Hope Street, and killed. The deceased has just previously purchased the horse. On cLV that telegraphic advice has been received here that the freezing apparatus on board the steamer Marsala broke down, and that in consequence her cargo of meat had to be thrown overboard. It is understood that the entire shipment was insured in home offices. Mr Seaton, M.H.R., on Saturday morning i bought a new buggy horse at the Public Auction Yards, and yesterday afternoon was trying him, driving up Princess-street, when the horse took fright, bolted up Staffordstreet, and ran the trap against a lamp-post in Hope-street, where the horse got free of the trap, out of which Mr Seaton seems to have been pulled by the reins, and dragged some distance down the channelling. Two I constables picked him up, insensible, and bleeding freely. He was carried into a hotel and medical aid immediately procured, when it was found that his skull was badly fractured. Mr Seaton died in two or three minutes. He was an old member of the Provincial Council and General Assembly, and once Immigration Agent for the Province. His constituents had arranged to give him a banquet next Tuesday evening. The audit of the Vincent County accounts disclosed a deficiency of about £4OO by W. Clark, the clerk, who has been suspended, and, it is understood, admits appropriating the money. This further involves the state of this unfortunate County, which has been at a dead-lock for some time over the Su.

preme Court proceedings about the Chair manship, WELLINGTON, This Day. Regarding the alterations proposed in the Government Insurance Office, the “Post” of Saturday, says it is understood that some important alterations are about to be made in the working of the Government Insurance , Department, with a view to further popular- ; ising the institution, meeting the convenience of the public, and encouraging habits of thrift. Hitherto the industrial branch has j been worked separately from the ordinary department the main difference in its system being the granting of policies for very small ■ sums, and the acceptance of weekly premiums instead of half-yearly, yearly, or ! quarterly as in the ordinary office. The col- ' lection, however, of the small weekly sums i involves considerable work and consequent ! expense which, of course, has to come out of i the insurers’ pockets and to be charged in ! the premiums. The result is that men who take out policies of £lOO or £2OO on weekly ' premiums in the industrial branch find them- ' selves at a material disadvantage as compared with the ordinary insurers who pay quarterly, and the discovery of this fact has elicited some little grumbling on the part of those who are too obtuse to perceive that 13 weekly payments instead of one quarterly must necessarily increase the amount of clerical work which has to be paid for. To remove this difficulty it is, we hear, contemplated to amalgamate the two departments, : and to work the whole under one general I system in order to enable industrial insurers , still to pay their premiums in weekly sums [ two alternative plans will be provided. They i will be able to give an order to the nearest i Postmasters to pay the weekly premiums out I of sums deposited by them in the Postal > Savings Banks, thus relieving them of all i trouble in regard to the premium payments, i or they will be supplied with “premium I cards” after the style of those used for penny postage stamps in connection with the j Savings bank. These cards will be ruled off in thirteen squares, representing the thirteen l weekly payments required to make up the | quarters’ premiums. Insurers can affix posti age stamps to these at their convenience, and . hand them in at the end of each quarter as i representing the payment of the quarterly i premium. This should give great facility to I the laboring classes for insuring their lives, 1 and it ought to be. It is in contemplation i to divide the surplus profit yearly in future, i so that insurers will enjoy an annual bonus. ; This will no doubt be a very popular change. | A very curious case w’as advanced a stage !in chambers. Mr Edward Shaw moved be- ■ fore Mr Justice Richmond, sitting in banco, ; tor a rule nisi calling upon a Maori named 1 Winiati to show cause why he should not dc- ' liver up to the custody of Miss Freebody her sister Fannie Freebody. aged about 9 years. . About eight years ago the mother of the : child brought it to this Colony from England I where she had left her husband. Here she I became acquainted with Winiata, a resident ' of the Taita district, who now has possession ■of the little girl. Miss Freebody, sister of i the child, has now arrived from England, I empowered by her father, to obtain its pos- | session, but Winiata refuses to give it up on 1 the ground that lie had adopted it. The rule • nisi was granted, and, on Saturday, Mr j Buckley appeared to show cause against it, Mr Shaw attending in support of it. After ; argument, His Honor made the rule absoi lute, and a writ of Habeas Corpus has been | issued for the surrender of the child to the . Judge at 11 o’clock on Tuesday next. ! Mr Andrew Young will contest the ' Mayoralty. A smart shock of earthquake was felt here ;on Saturday night at 11.4. No damage was . done. , The Administrator and Gentle Annie are i scratched for the Hutt Park Spring Handi- ‘ cap, and The Administrator for the Railway j Plate. Robinson has been elected Captain of the i Auckland Cricket team. In addition to i other matches, the Aucklanders have ar ranged for a match to be {played at Ashj burton. INVERCARGILL, This Day. > A stabbing affair took place last night on the North Road. The injured man, Maurice Gorman, says he was taking a Mr Gilchrist , home, being a countryman, and when near I the creek Gilchrist said he was deceiving him, and lay down, declining to go further. ! Gorman filled his hat with water, and threw iit over Gilchrist, thinking him drunk. Gilchrist then stabbed him in the groin, saying he would remember him as long as he lived, and then leaving Gorman, made his way to Bain’s house, and the police were informed. The wound is not essentially dangerous. Gilchrist, who was arrested, says Gorman and others attempted to rob him, and shows | a knife cut through his coat, vest, and 1 guernsey. Gilchrist was a member of the ■ Police force recently, but latterly has been in ■ the Hospital. Both men had been drinking, i and had a bottle of whisky with them. AUCKLAND, This Day. ' The horsewhipping case of McMitlan versus ' Cornwell, was adjourned at the Police Court to-day, until to-morrow. Bundoora and Prim are scratched for the • Auckland Cup. Another, man, the sixth, named George ' Dean, of the screw steamer, Wellington, has | been arrested on suspicion of complicity in | the recent robbery of jewellery aboard the vessel.