INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1789, 13 September 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At Auckland yesterday in the action North Zealandia Woollen Company v A. Bennett, promoter and l*te Secretary, for recovery of £474 14s 3d alleged to be wrongfully paid by him as Secretary, Mr Justice Gillies gave judgment against Bennett for the payment of £372 18s 4d with costs. He felt it might be a hardship for the man to pay this out of his own pocket, but it was clear that the Secretary of a public company had no power to pledge the credit of th 9 directors without their express authority in writing, which in this case they denied giving. The Auckland fishing boat Fat, has been raised from where it was sunk. Some fish was found on board, but no traoe of the three men who composed the crew. Last Tuesday night the St. Albans Borough Council office was broken into and £4 17s 6d Btolen from the drawer. An entrance was effected through the window. Detective Bain, connected with the Otago force for fourteen years, has been compiled to resign through illhealth. He was presented with a purse of sovereigns on leaving for Melbourne. There were 27 competitors for a design for the Colonial Mutual Association's new building at Dunedin. Mr T. Burnside, Dunedin, gets first priae of £7O, and Mr Clmtfield, Wellington, the second prize of £3O, Mr W. Ballinger, a member of the Wellington Guards, who intends to compete at the Victorian iiifle Association, Melbourne, is practising with the MartiniHenri rifle, and on Saturday he made 98 out of a possible 105 at 200, 300, and 500 yards. At the latter range he made the possible. A Manaia farmer found a live lamb the other (lay having two tails and four ears, but otherwise perfect. One of the socalled tails was growing out of its ear. The lamb has since died.