Telegraphic.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43103, 11 June 1907, Page 3

Telegraphic.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, This Day. Mayor London has resigned from the Fire Hoard in consequence of an insurance man being made Chairman. Another resignation is rumoured. Eighteen buildings off Walker Street, mostly occupied by Syrians, have been condemmed.

I NAPIER, This Day. I By an accident to a trap containing ' two .married ladies, named Marshall and an infant, . the latter was killed, the vehicle capsized in a cutting at Petane. WELLINGTON, This Day. Yesterday being the anniversary of the late Hon. R. J. Seddon’s death, a number of persons visited the tomb with flowers and wreaths, but there were no speeches. Members of the Ministry visited it on Sunday morning, Messrs Findlay, Chapman and Bell were sworn in as King’s Councillors before Judges Cooper and Button to.-day There was a very large attendance of rhe legal profession, who took a keen interest in the ceremony, the first of its kind. The annual balance sheet of the bank of New Zealand shows a profit cf £2-14,880, after paying £40,000 interest on guaranteed stock, £50,000 for an interim dividend and Writing off on premises and furniture, £16,000 further for dividends on preference shares at 2J per cent, and ordinary at 5 per cent are proposed, absorbing £37,500, leaving a reserve of £168,705. A grant to the provident fund of £7OOO and carried forward £31,675. The reserve will now sffind at a quarter million. AUCKLAND, This DayDuring the past season the Auckland Racing Club put £216,283 through the totalisator, an increase of £17.419- I The flaxmillers’ association strongly * urge the government to appoint a chief fibre expert, at a salary of not less than &450, and recommend Mr Johnston, grader at Auckland, for the position. John Beaufort, surveyor, fell downstairs and died in the hospital. He leaves a grown-up family.