INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 234, 12 September 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

A PERMANENT SEAT FOR SIR JULIUS. HIGH COMMISSION OF PACIFIC. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, September 12. It is understood the Governor will shortly deliver a lecture before the Wellington Philosophical Society on the defences of the colony. The purchaser of the hull and cargo of the ill-fated ship Lastingham intends forming a joint stock company, with a capital of £2OOO, in £lO shares. A representative of the proposed company left for the scene of the wreck to-day. The Marine Insurance Association has agreed to pay all claims against them in connection with the loss of the Lastiagham, tomorrow. Christchurch, September 12. Mr. A. G. Howland, coach builder, has just completed a bath chair, which he intends offering as a present to Sir Julius Vogel, who wishes to obtain a handy conveyance to take him from his residence to the House of Representatives. Auckland, September 11. The Polynesian. Gazette advocates the appointment of J. B. Thurston, Esq,, as High Commissioner of the Pacific. Dunedin, September 12. The Borough of South Dunedin took a poll yesterday for a £lO,OOO loan. Only ten voted against it. and it was affirmed by a majority of over 120. Tauranga, September 12. The Ven. Archdeacon Brown died at his residence on Saturday last, aged 81 years. He arrived in the colony in 1826 as a missionary sent out by the Church Mission Society of London, and has been in the colony ever since. Almost on arrival he was placed in charge of the Tauranga station, and has continued here ever since. The deceased has been ailing for some time past.