INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 10400, 23 August 1897, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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AUCKLAND, August 23. On Thursday last a whirlwind at Ohiraoetai, near Tauranga, made a track through some tea-tree and fern, and unroofed the large barn at Nat Dickey’s farm. Corrugated iron was twisted and driven 3ft into the earth, and an empty dray shifted a considerable distance.

Judge Conolly suspended the discharge of George Jamea Robert Dormer, a bankrupt, for twelve mouths. WESTPORT, August 23. The Ron. A. J, Cad man arrived from Nelson by special coach last evening. He visits the mining centres in this district, receives deputations, and leaves forßeefton, Greymouth, and Hokitika on Wednesday morning.

WELLINGTON, August 23. Mr Kenny, S.M., decided to-day that a chemist could not sell such articles as cameras without closing his skbp on the weekly half-holiday. ' J. T. Hall, a grocer, had his certificate suspended in the Bankruptcy Court for two years. The Assignee stated that it was a very extreme case of bad bookkeeping. Bankruptcy directly resulted from this cause. Iu another case Judge E Iwards took occasion to remark that the judgment summons was a bad system, which needed reform. The Assignee agreed that it ought to be modified, but no doubt it was somewhat difficult in cases where a man owed, say, under £3O in all. If a summons were issued the order should be made applicable to all the creditors. He intended to confer with the Justice Department ou the subject.