GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 64, 12 September 1901, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[PBESa ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 11th September. The poll" of ratepayers on the proposals of the City Council to borrow £100,000 for city improvements was taken to-day. Seven proposals were submitted—namoly, Fire Brigade £12,000, paving of streets £8000, extension of water supply £26,000, abattoirs £5000, refuse destructor £10,000, Town Hall £26,000, purchase of allotments £14,000. The first five wero carried by large majorities. The . Town Hall and purchase of allotments proposals were defeated. AUCKLAND, This D*y. At the half-yearly meeting of the Hibernian Society of New Zealand, District N.Z., various Southern lodges were represented. The report stated that the funeral claims paid during the half year amounted to £120, and there was a credit balance of £108. New branches had been opened .at Waimate, Westport, and Denniston. The total membership was 1143, and tho funeral fund stood at £4514-. Bros. Stead and Little were nominated for President, and Bro. Beehan for VicePresident. For the position of Superintendent of the Auckland Fire Brigade* seventeen apElicationa' were received. , The committee as selected four names from which the appointment will be made by the City Council— viz., Messrs. Woolley, of Port Adelaide, and Moorman, Heydon, and Bunn, all of Melbourne. DUNEDIN, 11th September. A fire was discovered this evening in the tramway offices> forming part of the Provincial Hotel block, but the flames were speedily got under, only a few pounds' worth of damage being done. The Standard Company has a policy of £650 on the premises. WANGANUI, This Day. The annual meeting of the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company was held yesterday. The balance-sheet was not so satisfactory as that of tho previous year, owing to tho price of frozen moat having dropped at Home. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, was declared. Mr. E. A. Campbell was elected managing director at a salary of £250 per year, Messrs. J. Stevenson, Alfred Burnett, and J. B. Murray were re-elected directors, and Messrs. Morton and Moffatt auditors. The Borough Council has authorised its solicitors to draft by-laws licensing bil-liard-rooms ; for the prevention of betting in .places or streets ; directing the removal of nil signboards by tho 31st December ; designing balconies and their width ; prohibiting expectoration on the footpaths ; providing that the foundations of newly erected houses shall be level with or higher than the crown of the roadway ; and providing for the numbering of houses in streets. Mr. James Giles, the well-known commercial traveller for Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., died last night at Ohingaiti, after a- short illness, from inflammation of the lungs and pleurisy. INVEROAKGILL, 11th September. In the Supreme Court to-day Mr. Justice Denniston granted a decree nisi in the divorce case John Yeo v. Alice Yeo and Charles King. A letter signed by the respondent and co-respondent was produced stating that they were living together, and us soon as a divorce was granted they intended to get married. NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Mr. Octavius Carrington, who arrived at Taranaki with his brother, the late 'Mr, Frederick Carrington, in the barque Brougham on 11th February, 1841, is dead. Ho assisted in laying out tho town of New Plymouth. In tho Police Court this morning, James M'Cullum, Chairman of the Okato School Committee, was fined 10s and costs for disturbing the school by dismissing the scholars during the inspector's visit of inspection. Tho prosecution was the outcome of trouble between the Board, the committee, and the inspector. The case of tho Marlborough Education Board and the Blenheim committee was quoted, in which Mr. Justice Edwurds held that the control of educational matters was in the hands bf the Board. Defendant pleaded Guilty. [OUR OWN CORUBSI'ONDKNT.I PALMERSTON N., This Day. Only one civil action was set down for hearing by the District Court before Judge Kettle yesterday — viz., Alexander v. Scott, a claim for £250 damages, caused through a box falling off dofoudnnt's express and breaking plaintiff's leg. ThA hirv awarded £20. with costs.