STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 55, 7 March 1905, Page 5

STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY.

[IIV TBIiKOUAVn— I'RBSI ASSOOtATIOS.) DUNHDIN, 6th March. At tho annual moMing of tho Standard Insuranco Company, Messrs. D. Haynos and M. Jool, tho retiring directors, wore ro-p|pt'ted. In acknowledging v voto of thanks to tho directors and Staff, the Hon. T. Fergus, referring to tho opposition of tho State Depart mont, said tho nihi of a certain soctlon of legislators j 'appeared to bo whorover they found an individual doing any good for himself) rthd conHequently for the colony, it wfts about time that individual shrtiild bcrknocked oil tho head. An extraordinary meeting was held to altor tho inoniornndiim of association, to enable tho company (6 carry on tho business of accident insurance.

(Received March 7, G29 a.m.) LONDON, 6th March. Renter's Mukden correspondent says the turning of the Russian right Hank at a complete right angle, hinging on Linshinpu, is considered tho most remarkable strategic movement of the war. Tho Japanese infantry brilliantly crossed the Shaho on Thursday night* winning the front two tniles across by crawling up bare, stony hills like leeches. Reuters Agency alao reports that two hundred Russian scouts are eastward of Niuchwang, moving north. It is reported at Niuchwang that the Russians mo burning the Mukden Station and stores, preparatory to making a retreat. Tho Russian right Hank wtis represented as being panic stricken. General Kuroputkin stales that the Japanese advance guard in surrounding tho Russian right Hank, and has irpproached within right versf's (a little over five miles) of tho Mukden Station.