INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13251, 9 December 1913, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press .Association.) 4JJ£^l*Am thiV day. To-day's shareroarket sales : Ross 12e to Us iOd. Waihi 62s 3d, Grand Junction 24s §d, . Auckland Gas (con) 10s 9d ■ . •..

WELLINGTON, this .day.. _ In the Divorce Court decrees 'abspl\ise were granted, m the following" cases : . Marie Horsely v. Perpivar John Etorsely; Johu Fuller v. Fuller. : The annual meeting: of the Bo*rd,pf Governors of the . Veterans' Home f was hclcj this morning, the Governor ing. It was reported tJiitr durjfn^ tHti year the capital fund had increased; frorn; £9440 to (£59740, but owing, to;. t^e decrease of subscriptions and collocUorfs of £108. » deficit .of £272 had to b® charged against the accumulated '.Ai.ijd account. . The average Aiunber. of Jejfi,dent veterans is 38, the . cost of ? fn^mtenance averaging 13s ll£d per.w»9|c per head. The Governor \vas re-elected president, the Hon. E. Mitchelspn treasurer, and Colonel R. J. , C^Uftijs secretary. The Board passed a resolution of sympathy with the widow ..arid family of the late 6ii\ Wjllianv one of the' founders , of the jnstitu^lqu^;--(Special to Herald.)

DUNKDEN;, r this day. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, when .meeting qi -Christchurch this week, will-be f invited;'{a approve of the proposal to convert Girtoh. College into a first class scholastic:' aUd boarding institutioii'' under the aegia of the Church of Otagoi and ,to r thSSfc^endj the residence of Mrs . Peter .Dji^ncjij} (Tolcarne), at Maori Hill, has been aci quired. . ' „•,■.";.