Interprovincial.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5697, 28 June 1902, Page 2

Interprovincial.

United Press ' Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Wellington, Jane 27 Recently a number of native land cases, m which, many thousands of pounds are involved, were before the Supreme Court at Napier. In two oases, those of Turei v Brown and another, and Parkerei v Shrimpton and others, certain mortgagees had been joined by order of the Court. At the trial afc Napier, judgment was given m these cases, discharging the mortgagees from the action, and the question o£ costs was reserved. This morning the Chief Justice allowed costs m the first mentioned case m a lump sum of .£SO to the mortgagees, with all disbursements, and m the other £70 each to the mortgagees and the Land and Loan Company. Other cases have been removed into the Court of Appeal for judgment, and will come up at the approaching sitting Private cable advices received here show that a privately convened meeting of the English shareholders of the Manawatu Railway Company was held m London on Tuesday last for the purpose of passing a resolution instructing the Directors to accept 30s per share from the New Zealand Government for the Company's line. The resolution was not, however, "put to the meeting. It is surmised that the news of the sale of the Makema swamp for £30,000, reached London m time to render the pro- j posal impracticable. i Chr!STO«uroh, June 27 The inquiry into the fire on May 15th, by which the Black Horse Hotel, Lincoln Road, was burned down, was resumed to-day. The Court sat for six hours taking the evidence of the licensee, Mrs Smith; and the the owner, Mrs Snook j the rouseabout, housemaid, and Mr Jamieson, builder. The evidence rather favoured a defective chimney aa the cause. The enquiry was adjourned till July Dunedin, June 27 At the Agricultural Conference, on the suggestion of the chairman, it was decided to send congratulations to Captain Russell on the honour conferred on A dis-; cussion took place on the subject of ergot, and the opinion tos generally expressed that ergot on grasses was not responsible for many things attributed to it. Mr J. A,, ftilruth read a long paper on diseases m atock, and after a brief discussion^ and vote of thanks to Mr Gijrutlv it was decided to hold the Conference at Auckland. The Hon. T. Fergus, John Roberts, P. Pattullo, and E. Roberts, were appointed a committee to give effect as far as possible to, the resolutions of the Conference. The delegates to the Conference were entertained at lunch hj th,e O^ago A. and P. Society. The, chairman, Mr John Roberts, referred to the good work of the Agricultural Department, established by the late' Sir- John McKenzie, and he looked forward to greater results m the future, Messrs Buckley, Dick, and Studholme, m responding to toasts, spoke of the pleasatt Conference, and said the Winter Show had been a revelation to visitors from the north. '