NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8476, 6 May 1893, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, May 5. Ab the annual meeting of the Northern Steamship Company, the Chairman, Mr D. B. Cruiekshank, said that the fleet was maintained in good working order, and the several brades of the Company kept steady. The report and balance sheet were adopted unanimously. A motion thab the honorarium of the Directors should be reduced was seconded. At the annual meeting of the Northern Steamship Company to-day a dividend of 6 per cent, was declared and £648 carried lorward. NAPIER, May 5. A cable message hrs been received here to-day announcing the death of Mrs Tollemoche, widow of the late Hon. E. Tollemache. It is believed that this means another large windfall in the shape of legacy duty. PALMERSTON NORTH, May 5. At the close of the Rev. L. M. Isitt's direct veto mission last night, the Theatre being crowded, a resolution in favour of prohibition without compensation was carried unanimously. WELLINGTON, May 5. The Public Trustee, acting under the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act of lasb session, offered 54 lobs, comprising 13,000 acres of bush lands iv various parts of Taranaki, for lease by public tender. Nearly 170 tenders on' closing were received, the highest giving au increase on the upset rentals of in some cases over 150 per cent. About sixty families will settle on these 13,000 acres, and, encouraged by this success, the Public Trustee is pushing on surveys to enable him to offer further blocks in a few months. The Natives interested have given bheir hearty co-operation. At the inquest on the child Macfarlane, accidentally knocked down and killed on Wednesday by Fredk. Pounall, the latber was acquitted of all blame. Subscription lists to the Ballance memorial fund are being actively distributed over the colony.

A representative of the Marine Supply Company, who has been for some weeks post in the colony, sent home by the Rimubaka specimens of colonial pork. He has now received a cable that the samples are approved, and he intends to travel the colony to work up the trade and induce farmers to go in for the breeding of pigs on a large scale. The Company will probably instal factories at Wellington, Waitara, and Christchureh, and will eventually be prepared, as soon as the supply is assured, to enter into contracts for a term of years. DUNEDIN, May 5. A Liberal League was formed at Caversham to-night, and a vote of confidence in the Government was passed. A man has been arrested on a charge of obtaining £2 from a countryman by means of what is known as the confidence trick. The second man is still at large. INVERCARGILL, May 5. At to-day's meeting of the Education Board a resolution was adopted, on the motion of Mr Baldey, seconded by Mr Mackintosh, M.H.R.—"That this Board place on record its regret at the death of Mr Ballance, and its sense of the loss the colony has sustained, and express deep sympathy with Mrs Ballance in her bereavement." All the members spoke in the highest terms of the deceased statesman's services to the colony.