NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8044, 12 December 1891, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND.

■• ■■ • ■ — ■«. [rXSSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] AUCKLAND, December 11. At the Wesleyan district meeting the Chairman stated that he had received a letter from the Rev. W. L. Salter stating that he intended to return from Norfolk Island about —February next year, and should expect a circuit at the next Conference. There, is an increase reported of 41 Church members and 603 attendants upon public worship. WELLINGTON, December 11. Bonus notes are now being postad to the policy-holders by the Government Life Insurance Department, and represeut a total of £396,000 added to policies or reversionary bonuses, which can be held or surrendered for their cash values, as each policy-holder tn*y prefer. At a meeting of the A. and P. Association the balance-sheet shoved that when all expenses in connection with the recent show and the working of the Association were paid there would be a debit balance of £60. The next annual ram and ewe fair will be held in the third week in February, and the question of a new site for the *nnnal show was referred to a Committee. Considerable interest is taken in the election of the Council of the Public Service Association of New Zealand, nominations for which close here on 31st December.* The fiauroto, which left for Sydney to-day, took sixty passengers. The Minister for Public Works returned to Wellington to-day. GREYMOtJTH, December 11. The bullion shipped per the Mawhera for the National Bank to-day was 19620z 7dwt 4grs, valued at £7947115. The weather is still very hot. The Midland Railway officials have arranged for a regatta at Lake Brunner on Saturday, 26th. The last lot of brown tront in the Acclimatisation Society's ponds were yesterday distributed between Totara Flat and Orwell Creek. DUNEDIN, December 11. In the Supreme Court the jury gave a verdict for tne plaintiff for £150 in the case Robertson v Abbott, iv which damages were claimed for the loss of plaintiffs son, through scaffolding erected by defendant giving way. The law points under which it is understood the verdict will, under Lord Campbell's Act, be set aside, were reserved.