INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 253, 6 October 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per United Press Association.] Invercargill, October 6. The insurances on the recent fire are as follows : —Craig’s stock (slightly damaged by water), £1,300 in the National office, W. Smith’s stock, £2OOO, divided as follows— New Zealand, £5OO ; Royal, £750; Northern, £250; Australian Mercantile Union, £5OO (half reinsured.) Smith’s shop (owned by Sloan) and Sloan’s warehouse were insured for £650 in the Norwich Union, and for £5OO in the Equitable ; Sloan’s stock, £lOOO in the Colonial (£750 re-insured), £5OO in the South British, £5OO in the Liverpool London and Globe, and £5OO in the Royal (partly reinsured), Sloan also had a lot of stock over Craig’s shop; it was damaged by water, and is insured for £lOOO in the Liverpool London and Globe. Reid and Ferguson’s stock, £lOOO in Equitable, and on the stock and fittings £5OO in the North British. P. Ross had his building insured for £l5O in the North British, and for £5OO in the Royal. Cleave’s premises, £2OO in Equitable, and £lOO with the HamburgMagdeburg; Cleave’s stock, £5OO in Colonial office. Cowper and Wilson’s shop, £250 in Australian Mercantile Union, £4OO in Royal, £5OO in United ; stock, £5OO in South British, £5OO in Equitable, £5OO in Standard, £lOOO in Australian Mercantile Union, and £250 on fixtures in same office. Cooper and Wilson’s brick store (not damaged by water) is insured for £lOOO in the South British and £5OO in the Northern, and the stock for £5OO in the Northern, £lOOO in the Standard, £5OO in the Hamburg-Magdeburg, and £lOOO in the United. The total insurance amounts to £18,650. The second outbreak could easily have been prevented if anything like an adequate water supply was available.

Napier, October 6. The entries for the forthcoming show are the largest on record, the total showing 551 entries as against 461 last year, the largest number of entries ever received previously being in 1881, when there were 534. With fine weather the exhibition promises to be a great success. The show should be very attractive in the sheep, horses, implements, dairy produce, dogs, and sundries classes, as the numerous entries will tend to keep up competition, which, while proving embarrassing to the judjes will be appreciated alike by the ordinary visitor and the practical business expert. Mr. Ormond, Captain Rossell, and Sir George Whitmore arrived on Saturday evening from Wellington. At the election on Saturday for a member of the Hawke’s Bay County Council for Petane riding, Mr. Thomas Tanner was returned by a large majority. The Napier High School endowment block was submitted to auction on Friday by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Only two sections were sold, namely, block 8, section 5, 356 acres, £445, and section 6, 159 acres, £260, Mr. Powdrell being the purchaser in both instances. In a month’s time the remainder of the land will be thrown open for selection.

A section of three acres at Clive was sold for £5O, and three sections in the township of Tarawera were sold for £7 10s. each by the Commissioner of Lands. There was paid into the County Council on account of Native rates £667 on Friday by the Government, being-two thirds of the last two years’ rates due by Government. Joseph Haley had his bail of three pounds estreated for failing to appear to answer to a charge of being drunk and disorderly. This is a nice little lift for the Treasury in consequence of one man’s modesty. Wellington, October 6. Active operations are to be commenced at the marble quarry, Caswell Sound, in the course of a day or two. The purchasers of the wreck of the Lastingham have chartered the steamer Lyttelton, and that vessel will sail for Jackson’s Head in a few days. Captain Cooper and some seven or eight divers, and a number of workmen will go over by her. It is intended to moor the Lyttelton close to the wreck so as to have her available for lifting the cargo out of the Lastingham. Auckland, October 6. The Mayor’s aquatic picnic to the city officials on Saturday passed off successfully. The fire at Tahiti destroyed the entire business centre of the town. The total loss is between £5,000 and £lO,OOO. Nelson, October 6. A plague of rats has appeared at Collingwood, from West Wanganui to Cape Farewell, The country, both bush and beach, is overrun with rats, which made their appearance suddenly. Hawks and gulls are preying upon the rodents, and some lads with dogs killed 4,400. They are doing great mischief among the oats and rooting down to the seed potatoes. It is stated that persons travelling to the south of West Wanganui met a drove of them, and cleared out to let them pass.