GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4525, 16 September 1893, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

(By Telegraph,—Press Association).

j Auckland, Soptmibor 15. Tho City Council Jiavo decided to build a turret cluck for tho Free Pub. lie Library, at a coat of over £6OO, on ' Hie model of tho Invereargill Post Ofßco clock. : The question of taking precautions to prevent the introduction to Auckland of cholera or other infectious diseases by passengers or cm-go has been referred to tho local Board of Health. . At the annual mcrting of the Northern Boot and Shoe Company the roport showed a profit of £4Ol after tho usual writing off, and £2Ol left to carry forward to tho profit and loss account, which now stands at £2O3G on the credit side, No dividend was declared, as it is intended to purchase fresh machinery, fieere, tho Auckland long-distmco runner, is unable to get the leave necessary for taking part in tho Australasian Championship Meeting. Dunedin, September 15, The Board of Land Purchase Commissioners has held sittings here all t s week to consider offers to tin Government of land for settlement. Westport, September 15, The first train load of coal—26 trucL-3—from theMokiliinui Coal Co.'i mine arrived this evening, Tho train, ou reaching the station, w»6 received with cheers by tho crowd assembled, Subsequently Mr Moynihan, solicitor to the company, on behalf of the directors, invited a representative gathering to drink success to tho company. The County Chairman responded on behalf of the directors. Mr Young, engineer to the Westport Coal Company, Mr Peterkin, the railway manager, end the representative of theCurdiff Coal Company, congratulated the company on the successful results of their operations. The coal is of excellent quality, and fully equal to Coalbrookdale. Five hundred tons will be shipped next week.

I Cbkistohubch, September 15, At a meeting of the eotniuitteu of the Chamber of Commerce to day, a letter was read from the Premier's office, in reply to one from the Ohambor, stating that the Government were favourably disposed towards Intercolonial reciprocity, Messrs A. M. Ollivier, J, Henderson, A, A. McKellar and F. Waymonth were appointed members of the Council of tbe Institute of Accountants, in accordance with the resolution passed at tho Wellington Conference, The sub-committee appointed to consider tho subjeot suggested that the name of the institute should bo altered to 'lnsti« tuto of Accountants of New Zealand, Incorporated.' At the Besidont Magistrate's Conrt to-day, William Storey was committed for trial on a charge of forgery,