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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4107, 7 May 1892, Page 3

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[By Telegraph,—Press Association, /\ Go-Operatiue Butchery, Auckland, May G. At a pulilio meeting called to consider tho recent increase in the price of meat, a oommiiteo was appointed to prepare a -schemo for the establish.. , mentof a co-operative butchery, Death of a Veteran. Gishorne, May 6. After a brief illness of 24 horns, Colonel Green, C.B„ late of Bengal, died oI internal hemorrhage la-t night. The deceased was oil a visit to liu mother and sistor, and was to huvo left to-day for England, via UoOart. lie li"S just retired fiom active service, having had a distinguished military career, and having, giined fumo in tho campaign against tialnil in 1870, Union Insurance Company. Transfer of the Business. Chmstciiuuch, May G, It is announced that arrangements have been completed for the transfer of the business of the Union Insurance Company to the Alliance Fire ind Alliance Marine Insurance Com ■ patties, of London, and that a meeting of -"skroliolders of the Union Company will bo called in Juno to confirm the arrangement in question, It is understood that the Union shareholders will receive about 30a. per sharo for their shares, and as the present price is 20s the transaction would appear to be a very satisfactory i ono for the Union shareholders. The 1 Alliance Fire and Alliance Marine Companies are two of tlio most substantial and most favourably known of the English companies, Thefunds of tho first-named amount to £3,400,000, and tlio latter to .£•180,01)0, Lord Rothschild is the j chaiiman of each Company. The j present directors, managers and staff } of the Union Company will continue ] to represent the Alliance Companies ] through New Zealand and the Australian Colonies. Cruelty to Animals. 1 CiittisTCiiußCu, May G. i The charge brought by the Society I (or tile Prevention of Cruelty to Ani* ! mals against Captain Itomeril, of the jjteamer Kalitt, for alleged cruelty to sheep through overloading, which Ins , occupied the Kesident Magistrate's i Court all dij, was dismissed, each | party to pay their own costs. The evtdenco for the defence showed that though 850 sheep were stated on the Custom's manifest, only GBS sl'eop were actually shipped, and the number lost was due to bad weather, and not ; to too dose packing. .