INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 21 October 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(per united pkbss association.) AUCKLAND. October 20. The City Council have refused to take the poll of burgesses on the question of bringing into operation or otherwise of the Contagious Diseases Act. At last night's meeting several councillors expressed an opinion that legal proceedings should he taken against a so - called religious paper for printing an obscene advertisement intended as a skit on the Act. Sir George Grey has promised a further gift of old manuscripts to the Auckland library. PATBA. : Octocer 20. . The Harbour Board, having been ' brought to book at the public meeting , for alleged apathy in the matter of im- , proving the river entrance, a general ] resignation is imminent. The chairman ] aud one member have already resigned. < WELLINGTON. ' October 20. ] Captain William Callow, the owner s and captain of the well-known trading schooner Saucy Lass, died rather sud- i denly last night; supposed to be from i heart disease. < The Government are making arrange- < meats for the observation of the transit e of Vonus. It is probable that there will i be three stations in Wellington, one s being at the Te Aro and of the city, the j second in the Wairarftpa district. Tbs c site for the third has not yet been defi- t nitely decided upon. The English obser- \ vation party are expected to arrive in e Christchurch early in November, and I will probably fix upon Burnbam as r their station. a Young Worth and the girl Davis, 1 recently convicted for indecent behaviour v in the Botanical Gardens, have been re- ii leased, pending the result of an appeal o against the verdict. The ground of s appeal is that the evidence adduced did li not warrant a conviction in point of law. n The National Mutual Life Association s of Australasia have purchased a site for C new offices at a price of £9500. They h intend erecting a handsome building. a

HAVELOCK. 1 October 20. ] John McDowell's house at Kaihina < Valley, 6£ miles from Havelock, was ' burnt to the ground at 4 o'clock this i morning. The fire occurred through ■ the bursting of a kerosene lamp. The i children were rescued. The furniture i was all burnt. Assistance was at hand. The building alono was insured for ' £150. i CHRISTCHUKCH. \ October 20 A gentle rain began this evening. •■ J it is now falling steadily, with ovory appeai'ance of continuance. It comes just at the right time, as farmers in some districts are already crying out for ' it. At a meeting of the Board of Health, to-day the Medical Officers' report showed that there had been 7 cases of typhoid, 60 diphtheria, <12 scarlet fever, 10 measles, during the three months ending September 30th. It was resolved to ask Government what steps have been taken to enforce vaccination in schools, and to cany out an inspection to ascertain what childron are now unvaccinatod. At the Synod to-day the report of the commission appointed by the Bishop to consider the best means of providing insurance of church buildings was read. The commission recommended as follows : — " That it be a recommendation to trustees to undertake as present insurance expires the insurance of all churches, parsonages, schools, and schoolbuildings, vested in them, including the Cathedral and Bishops Court, at current rates charged by the Canterbury Fire Insurance Association, provided that the trustees re insure either wholly or in part with some substantial insurance company in the case of all buildings involving special risks or exceeding a maximum insurance of £1200 until the accumulated reserve fund justify the Synod recommending the gradual absortion of all risks. That the trustees bo instructed to raise by loan, if needful, upon the security of church property, trust general estate such sums as are from time to time required to meet losses by fire of church buildings assured by them, aud to pay interest and sinking fund for such losses out of the premium received from the several parishes and districts, applying the remainder of such premiums to an accumulation of fire insurance capital or reserve fund of at least £10,000. The commission think it probable from the experience of the last thirty years that the course thus recommended will result in a considerable yearly income which may be applied in aid of the Clergy, Widows, and Orphans Fund, or some other church object in which all the parishes insuring may be fairly taken to be interested. A banquet was held to celebrate the suocess attending the efforts of those who have lately been agitating to bring about an alteration in the insurance tariff. There were some sixty present. The spoecheß touched upon other subjects of interest to trade and commerce, as well as insurance. The Hall company left for Wellington this evening by the Arawata — that is to say, some of them did, for at the last moment Hall and his partner, Wilmott, had a misunderstanding of some kind. The result was that the latter withdrew, and some of the company siding with him, returned to Christchurch, leaving Hall and hia followers to proceed on their journey alone. DUNEDIN. October 20. A peculiar case was heard at the District Court to-day before Judge Ward. Henry Wilson, a lad, by his next friend, Louisa Wilson, sued George and Mary Claris: under these circumstances. In the month of Juno, 1881, the defendant Mory Clark threw a fork at her husband intending to injure him, and in doing so struck the plaintiff with the fork and injured his eye bo that the plaintiff lost his eye and suffered great pain and injury, wherefore plaintiff claimed .£2OO damages.