INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 228, 5 September 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

MR. STOUT’S RECENT TRIP. [Per United Press Association.] New Plymouth, September 5. Mr. Rhind has completed another section at the breakwater, which makes the total length of the pier 1,166 feet. The Harbour Board are about to adopt the same practice enforced by the Railway Department—that of making the carters pay all charges on goods before delivery, which they collect from the storekeepers. This will not only be far more convenient to those receiving the goods—who will have only one account to pay—but it will likewise be more economical to the Harbour Board to collect the landing charges in this way. Duneiin, September 5.

The Standard Insurance Company has declared an interim dividend at the rate of 7} per cent. Christchurch, September 5. Yesterday afternoon Haylands and White’s Rock estate, situated in Rangiora district, comprising 8,309 acres freehold and 35,000 acres leasehold, was sold by auction by the N. Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company to Mr. W. C. Nicholls for £26,000. Mr. Grigg, M.H.R., was burnt in effigy at Rakaia on Tuesday. Information has been received from Sydney that Mr. J. C. Porter, late R.M. in the Kiapoi district, is dead. At a meeting of the Harbor Board they considered the charge to be made for the tug Lyttelton in conveying Mr. Stout to Wellington recently. At the rate agreed on (£2 per hour) the charge would be £9O, but the Board decided to take the nature of the service into consideration, and make a charge of £5O, about the amount expended for wages and coal. Wellington, September 5. At the meeting of the Thorndon Licensing Bench all applications for extension of hours from 11 to 12 o’clock were refused. Auckland, September 5.

At the Police Court, a few days ago, Neville Thornton, the well-known scenic artist, appeared as complainant against his wife, who was charged with assaulting him and his two children. Mrs. Thornton was required to find two sureties for her good behaviour of £lO each, or one of £2O ; in default, to undergo six months’ imprisonment. Napier, September 5.

The farmers about Woodville, having failed to guarantee sufficient milk, the dairy factory for 400 cows which had been erected will not be opened this season as intended. Mrs. Hall, the wife of a tradesman at Woodville, found her child of three months old dead in bed on Tuesday morning, having overlaid it during the night.