INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 115, 25 April 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] DEATH OF AN OLD IDENTITY. Nelson, April 24. Mr. George Hooper, of the firm of Hooper and Dodson, died this morning, aged seventyeight. He arrived in Nelson in k the ship William Harrison in 1842 : and a year later he started business as a brewer, from which time till his death he had been actively engaged. The deceased was seized with a fit on Tnpsflay morning from which he never recovered. INQUEST ON SUICIDE. Dunedin, April 24. In the case of Prescott, the jury returned a verdict of determined suicide while temporarily insane. It transpired that the de:easad was short in his accounts. The jury added a rider censuring Dorn well, his employer, for laxity in keeping his accounts. FIRES. An uninsured stack of oats, at Totara, worth about £6O was burned. The cause is unknown. A four-roomed house belonging to Patrick Russell, at Kew, near Caversham, was burned down this morning. It was insured for £250 in the Union. The furniture was insured for £5O in the same. WHOLESOME CAUTION. John Keast assaulted C. E. Hutchison for writing a letter to a paper accusing him of cruelty to a horse. He said he would teach him to write to papers. Keast was fined £3 10s. 6d. and costs. LOCAL INDUSTRY. A deputation from the Trades and Labor Council interviewed the Premier, asking him to restore the city to one constituency and to assist local industry. Major Atkinson. *«• plied that the Government had already announced their intention to do the first, and were getting rolling stock made in the Coldny as quick as possible. He believed everything which could be made here should be, even if it cost ten per cent, above the imported price, but did not believe locomotives could be made in the Colony. MARINE INSURANCE. Auckland, April 28. Efforts are being made here to form a marine assurance association. The steamship Rowena has been damaged to the extent of £l5O by collision with a scow. The latter was uninjured, except that her bowsprit was broken. A SIGN OF THE TIMES. Christchurch, April 25. Forty-two bankrupts are waiting lor a day to be fixed to hear their applications for discharge. The Court is so busy that a date is not likely to be fixed this month. THE LEGAL PROFESSION. The following candidates have been reported to the acting Chief Justice as having passed their legal examination for admission in New Zealand :—W. Pennefeather, barrister, admitted elsewhere; Levi and Buckland, colonial students, as barristers; Griffin, Kirk t Smerill, Kennery, Haultain, Franklen, Moorhouse, Sinclair, Dignan, Doubleday, Holliday, Richmond, Milne and Stopford, Colonial students, as solicitors. H. J. Tancred, Chancellor of the New Zea-. land University is seriously ill. Fears are entertained that he will not recover. Tauranga, April 25. Instructions have been received from the contractors in London to commence the surveys of the Tauranga, East Coast, and Hot Lakes District Railway. IMPORTANT DECISION. Napier, April 25. A decision of some importance was delivered by Judge Brookfield in the Native Land Court. Some Native grantees of the Kaikora Block applied to the Court, under the Act of 1869, to determine the value of their shares. The Court held that the Act of 1880, costituting a new Land Court, practically displaced the Act of 1869, and that the Court could only undertake to take evidence in such cases when diiccted to do so by order of the Supreme Court. The first bi own trout taken in Hawke’s Bay was exhibited in town to-day. MAJOR ATKINSON AT DUNEDIN. Wellington, April 25. Major Atkinson addressed a very large meeting in Dunedin last night. He devoted his speech principally to showing that the loans had been fairly distributed between the two Islands, and urging the people not to take a despondent view, but by hard work, econmy, and self-control, secure a prosperous future. A vote of thanks was moved, and au amendment, that the meeting had no confidence in his administration of the Government. Only about half those present voted, and the Mayor amidst some confusion, declared the motion carried. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. A sharp shock of earthquake, accompanied • by the usual rumbling sound, was experienced here at 11.55 p.m. The seismometer records a slight twisting movement from S.W. displacement to N., followed by a moderate east and west undulation.