INTERPORVINCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11631, 4 November 1887, Page 2

INTERPORVINCIAL.

! PALMBRSTON NORTH.

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NELSON.

HOKITIkA.

DUNBDIN

PKB UNITED PRBSS ASSOCIATION. ' TAURANQA. November 2 It is reported to the police that the , four natives who left in a boat on Friday . night for Mototi have not turned up, and it is believed that the boat must , have foundered and the natives drowned. i There was a rough sea that night. > Constables have been despatched to i examine the beach for the bodies.

f AUCKLAND.

1 November 3 1 H.M.S. Opal is still at Tonga, and the 1 German Squadron is at Apia, Samoa. F Arrived— Wainui from Fiji. She I brings news to the effect that the Go- [ vernor of that colony has announced I reductions in the salaries of Civil Serv- , ants of from five to twenty per cent, and i a number have been dismissed. He . threatened to close Lovuka as a port of > commerce, and defended his action. '' Some sensation has been caused by a statement that an affidavit has been [ filed iv in the Supreme Court to have 1 the name of a well known solicitor I struck off tbe rolls. The affidavit sets forth that the lawyer had left Knglaud 3 with J;60,000 trust money, and had been b struok off the English" roll, and was t practising in Auckland under the asi sumed name of Bigley, The lawyer in i question admits that Wgley is assumed, i and that hie real name is Bamwell, and f explains the circumstances for changing E it as follows:— In 1881 he had an extern- > aive praotice in the North of England 8 as r solicitor. He became director of i Boveral companies, investing money in » them. He was sole proprietor of two j! laige cotton mills in the neighbourhood % of Manchester, but as the result of depression he suffered heavy losses, ultimately falling with heavy liabilities. a 11 debts were honourably inourred, and , his personal loßses amounted to j£so,ooo* On the advice of his friends he came to ( the colony to endeavour to retrieve his position, and has been residing in Auckland for the past three years. He says he changed his name in order to bßtter his chances. He denies that hiß name is struck off the roll at Home. It . ceased to appear because, having come i to the colony, ha neglected to take any * annual Qertiiiqatea

FEILDING-.

November 2 Mr Marchant, ohief surveyor, hai been visiting the small farm settlements In this district, and has expressed himself highly pleased with the progress n>ade. He specially alluded to the good i work done at the Birmingham settle* tnent.

November 3 I Mrs Waldegrave, wife of Mr J. J. j Waldegrave, J:P., died suddenly last night.

November 8 About were taken at the Carterj ton show gates yesterday. A strong southerly gale prevented many viators from atteudiug, but the attendance was large. At the Municipal Conference this morning, the report of the committee appointed to consider the proposals oi the Mayor of Dunedin, relative to hospital and charitable aid, recommended (1) that Parliament be moved to alter the basis of the rate by providing thai it be levied ou the baßis on which the Property Tax is levied, without tho exemption ; (2) that the board, whioh al present makes a levy upon contributing bodies, shall be charged with the dutj of making and collecting the rate. The clauses were dealt with sertaium, the first being carried and the eeoond withdrawn, The conference disoussed the bill to amend "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1887," but they took nc action. A motion to repeal the Municipal Corporations Act in the direotion ol giving power to councils to elect Mayors was oarried. It was resolved to en deevour to amend section 31 of the Bating Aot, bo as to provide tbat rates may be collected for five years, instead of foi two years, after becoming due ; agreed t0.5 When O'Brien, the schoolmaster, whe has just been brought back from Sydney on a charge of wife desertion, appeared before the oourfc he created quite a scene by bringing various charges in the moet excited mannei against the Magistrate, Mr Wardell. Upon tha latter asking him whether his wife was present, O'Brien exclaimed i that he (Mr Wardell) probably knew best where she was. The Magistrate ordered the oase to stand over till the counsel . for O'Brien returned from I Wangannii and ifc will probably go on i this afternoon. ! Later; At the B.M. Court this afternoon, O'Brien, on a charge of attempting to deseit his wife, was again placed in the dock, when he apologised to Mr Wardell, the Resident Magistrate, for the remarks he made in the morning, which (he explained) were uttered in the heat j of the moment, and that there was not i the slightest foundation for the insinuations thrown out. Eventually the case was settled by O'Brien paying £200 and costs in satisfaction of all claims againsl him. Tbe evidence in the Stewart compen* sation case was concluded today. Arguments on latv points have yet to be taken, but no date baa been fixed, and ! the result will not be known for some rlavfl.

November 3 ' After five days' crushing from the Wakatu mine the Owen gave fron blankets alone one hundred and twent] four ounces of amalgam ; the quantity of stone for thiß was about 75 tons. Afte; the 14th November the first genera clearing up will take place, and th< actual result known, It is stated that the yield from" blankets alone is payable. At the Education Board to-day it Vai | Btated that under the proposals in th< Financial Statement 570 children ii | tbe kelson district would be struck of I the rolls, as being under six years oi age. The Nelson district would thu lose £3810 hv frhfi T>mnnsnfl «H,RrA+,irvnn

November 3 At a large and influential meeting held yesterday afternoon it was resolved to form a society for the accUmatisatioi and protection of game. It was stated tbat the Chinese were ia the habit ol catching whitebait and other fish by th< bucketful and imng them to manure laud. It was also resolved to ask the Municipal Conference to endeavour t< get Parliament to give local bodies power to make grant? to the acclimatisation | tion societies and similiar institutions.

November 3 The directors of the National Insurance Ooinpany have given notioe of theii intention to recommend to the share holders to alter the articles of assooia tion to allow tke board to open a share register in London, the number of sharee transferred to be limited to fifty thousand. At the Presbyterian Synod yesterday attention was called to the Divorce Bil which it is proposed to being into th< House of Bepresentativea, and a resolution expressive ot tbe Synod's approva of the placing of husband and wite 01 the same footing with regard to adul tery, bub its disapproval of all the othei proposals, as being contrary to th< marriage ordinance as a Divino ordinance, and contrary to the teaching oi the Scripture, in regard to the grounc for divorce, and -as undermining th( family institution and the moral and sooial well being of the community, Th< Synod closed its meeting, to-day.