DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4393, 1 February 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Yesterday. At the Colonial Bank half yearly meeting to-day the report of the directors, recommending a dividend of 7 per cent., was adopted. The Hon. G. McLean was in the chair, and the proceedings were of the ordiuary nature. Mr R. Wilson was elected to the directorate. The Coffee Palace operations for the year show an excess of income orer expenditure of £344, but preliminary expenses, depreciation, &0., absorb so much

that there is a balance of £156 to the debit side. The lessee of the building has consequently had to pay the full amount of his guarantee, viz., £200. A.singular case of some importance occurred in the Supreme Court today, that of Bailey r. the Union Bank of Australia. The plaintiff was a chemist in Invercargill, and bis case was tbat his wife had made a purse of her own from the proceeds of his business, which she had paid into the bank in her own name, and afterwards taken out of the bank, all without -her husbind's-knowledgeW authority. Her relations with her husband were unsatisfactory, and it was I alleged that the bank were a ware,ofthis,, and were aware also that she was a married woman. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff on all the issues. The amount involved was £641 8s lid. | Vital statistics : Births, 167 ; deaths, 64; marriages, 40. Mr David Mackellar, of Tapanui, is importing from America a complete plant for a pork"packing industry, similar to those in use in Chicago. The scraping machine ; will put through eight pigs per minute. . j : V This day. ! The Herald says that Mr Geo. McLean proceeds to England in March, and will be absent six months. It also states that the Otago Law Society intends holding a meeting to consider Judge Gillies' reflec-, tions on Mr Hesketh.'