[Per Press Agency.] AUCKLAND. 7th January.
Dr. Wallis, M.H.R., one of the Education Commissioners, leaves for Wellington tomorrow. Mr. O'Rorke, M.H.R., will probably follow on Monday next. At the Supreme Court Thomas Fidget, for placing an obstruction on the railway, was acquitted, the evidence not being sufficient. William Maples, of the Occidental Hotel, for the second offence, was fined £10 and costs for permitting gambling in his house. Inspector Wolfe said the men engaged in gambling on the night in question were all professionals, and that the system had a very bad effect on young men of the city, many of whom were drawn into the vortex of ruin < through its influences. Bth January. The thirty-sixth half-yearly report and balance-sheet were presented at a meeting of the shareholders of the New Zealand Insurance Company to-day. After making provision for ail ascertained losses to date, and carrying £5000 to the reserve fund, which now stands at £40,0*0, there remains a sum of £19,263 available for division, which the directors propose to appropriate for the payment of a-divi-dend at 15 per cent, or £15 000, leaving a balance to be carried forward of £4283.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 314, 8 January 1879, Page 2
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192[Per Press Agency.] AUCKLAND. 7th January. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 314, 8 January 1879, Page 2
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