NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2025, 30 June 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[liV THK.HU'II PKF>.n ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Satunlay. Tin Wellington local committee of the Exhibition have decided to accedo to the (ksneof Dr. Yon Haast t'lat lit should act in a similar capacity t )i the London Exposition The dircctois of tin C<»loniil Insiu ancc Company have uunnimou-ily ic.solved to oppose tin pns^in^ of lilt Inmiranco Companies IJill w ltli the c\(ep tion of the clauses iel <t nn n ' to tlic formation of limited liabilnv <■ > np.nmM CHRISTCMUROII, Sund.y Last ni^ht K. R Dims was oinmittrd for tiial for foigtn;,' uittiis m a I'o^t OlHce Sa\in^s li.ink dook uith intent u. deceive persons « horn lv is atcusud of defrauding by tamassing foi a liolm Isick and burial association. DUNKDIX, Saturday. By a fire at James Shand's '-table, Farquahar, Taieri, foui lioises wire ljuri>t. Monday. At the meeting of the '•liaieholders of the Wesport Coal Company, it was agreed to wait as a deputation on the ducctors as to the reason of the last call. At the half-yearly meeting it was stated no more calls would be made without consiiltiug the shareholders, but this was not done. vS. S. Hutchnon, who was arrested at Auckland for fraudulent bankruptcy, came up at the bankruptcy sitting for examination, but it ha 3 not concluded. The examination did not discover anything seiy new. Having built the Ca\orsham (las Works with assistance from the Bank and KOjf, Stead and Co, tin y were oflfied to Hutchison for £.V>,ooo, and he floated a company in London, to which he sold them f< r £100,000, but he only leconcd in cash £40,000.