INTERPROVINCIAL.

Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3823, 23 October 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PKB PBBBB AOBKOT.] Auckland, October 22The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand was held to-day. The report showed a nett profit to 30th September ot £72,717, declared a dividend of 15 percent, increased the reserve fund by £25,000, w* I carried a balance to the new account of £179tfe It wae resolved to increase the directors, honorarium from £1000 to £1500. Mr J. C. Firth has been elected a director of the Bank of New Zealand viqe Mr Jaine* Watt, lately appointed auditor. Wbllihgtok, October 22. Subscriptions towards the Indian Fasnns Fund are pouring in rapidly. The Key. Mr Clark preached in tJ» Weeleyan Church last night in aid OX ' th& fund, and £77 were collected. Hundreds were unable to gain ad mission, the church being full half an hour before the usual time »r service. , f The Government are advised, under ttaw 1 San Francisco 18th, that the City of left San Francisco on October 10th with tse London mails of September 20th. TheAuetralia, which left Auckland on the 26fcn September, arrived at San Francisco on October 17th, one day in advance of contrae* time. __ GaRXicotTTH, Octobers*. Twenty-four hours' heavy rain caused « flood in the river, but so far little damage fl» been done to »he town, beyond floodtofrf the lower parts of it. Yesterday about «{p chains of the inner side of the harbor worn* gave way, carrying the railway, metal*, ana tracks into the river. At the β-ime tiiae &- locomotive and two stono trucks were employed tipping stone to preserve the Jaceo* tlie worksT which is of sand. This gave wan and both trucks and lowmotive went into river. The locomotive is now lying partly °n the bank, attached by a rope, to disappearing in the stream. The men on tiw trucks, and the engineer on the loeomotite, narrowly escaped with their lives. a m**DVf, October 22^ The premises of Heay Guthrie, *bpp*S agent, CrawfowJ slieet, were broken ffiW**

or Sunday nigbt, .and the iron safe but it contained no money or Seefe, and left a sledge hammer and other -the Princess's Theatre on Saturday night. The Chicago Minstrels re-*pycar^ <>* Wednesiy evening at the QuWe Thertre. The JSorama of the American War ™11 be Sited on November 3rd. The Opera Company will also appear in the first week u< tint month.