LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH]. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1293, 12 October 1880, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH]. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Last Night.

The profits of the South British Insurance Company for the half-year amount to £11,971. A dividend of 10 per cent, has been declared and a substantial balance carried forward. At the civil sessions of the Supreme Court, Mr Brookfield stated that it had been agreed to refer the disputed accounts between J. C. Young and the Government to the Registrar.

John Williams, merchant.of Kufcledge, Ga., sued a desperado. The defendant entered the store in a furious passion, held out the summons in one hand, clutching a longknif c in the other,and said, "Williams, have you sued me?" Williams knew that an immediate " Yes" would make him sure of a stab. "Let me get my spectacles bo that I can read the paper," he said. He •went behind the oounter and came back, not with his glasses, bnt with an axe across his shoulder. "Yes' *he said, ' 'I have sued you " "All right" replied the desperado, "I guess I'll pay the bill." The North Otago TUnes says that it may not be amiss to those who thoughtlessly consign interesting papers to the waate basket, that newspapers, if posted in Bini?l<HMldTessed numbers to the manager, keeper, clerk, seorctaxy, librarian, or other perwna having charge of any athenaeum, mechanics' institute, hospital, public lidrary, or lunatic asyluu in the Colony, «re permitted to pws through the post, and to t>e adhered free of postage,