INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 80, 15 January 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

[SpkoiaiiliY Telegraphed to Stab.]

[PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION."! Wellington, Last night.

The reason for Mr. Bryce's resignation is that his colleagues were averse to his proposal for a military advance on Parihaka on the occasion of the monthly m eting there on the 17th, and to arrest Te Whiti. Mr. Bryce's ultimatum was to carry out his views or accept his resignation. The other Ministers declined taking such strong measures, fearing a collision, and hence Mr. Bryce's resignation.

So far as returns have been made for the past nine months, they show that the colonial revenue for the year ending the 31st March next will come fully up to the Treasurer's estimate, and will probably exceed it. The railways are likely to be : under the estimate.

A fresh case of measles has broken out on Quarantine Island — that of a child. The other patients are progressing favorably.

Augkland, Last night.

At the fortieth half-yearly meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company, on Wednesday, the directors' report for the half-year showed that, after making pro-

vision for all a-scertained "losses to-<date*) and carrying to the reserve fundj there remains a sum of £21,797 2s 3d for division, which the directors propose should be appropriated as follows: — A. dividend at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum, £15,000 ; balance carried forward^ £6797.

Nelson, Last Night. The election for the Suburbs resulted in favor of Mr. A. S. Collins, the numbers being— Colling, 189 ; Harley, 159. It is understood that Mr. Collins will give a general support to the present Government.