INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 20900, 7 May 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.)

Wf.lmxotox, May 5. Tip City Council hare, agree! lo the proposal of the Auckland Ci'y Council that a Municipal .' leocial.ion should bfl e-tablished in order lo wa’ch oyer and protect the interests, rights, unci privileges of Municip l Corpora*ions.

i The Council have deci led to subscribe LISO toward* a clock to replace the one dee rop'd in the Post Office lire. The name of Uli*rles Jninos Russell, of ClirUtehur'cli, has been removed from die medical reg's'er of New Zealand. The Press Association ha e -to express their regret for having published a paragraph on April 14 which appears to r ilect upon Mr William Hooker, patent o oi the platinum burner for incandescent light. The Association finds that Mr Hooker left Now Zealand on business connected with his patent in ; a perfectly open manner for Sydney prior to any action whatever being brought by Mr W, J. Hunt against him, and that Ids intended departure was well known in W llington prior to his leaving.' The building which is being erected for the telephone exchange will be completed in a month, and the exchange will lie in operation in about five weeks. Annunciators are now being fitted up, and a shipment of telephonic material will arrive by the lonic about a week hence.

THE WAITAKI WRECK ENQUIRY, Ui it« 1 Press Association. : > Wellington, May G. The Nautical Court found: that dm wreck of ihe steamer Waiiski was attributable to tw i causes—undue confidence in ihe log, and running the ship full speed in thick weather, They suspend- d Captain. Pennal’s certificate for three months and ordered him to pay costs, j DISCOVERY OF A LAKE. (Per Press Association.) Westport, May G. A large new lake, two or three square miles in area, lias been discovei ed near the Mokihinui County, lately opened up by the new road on the side of the Holler River, yesterday, :

SCHOONER WRECKED. (Per Press Association.) Napier, May 6, The three masted schooner Reward was wrecked at Table Cape, on the north side of Maliia Peninsula. Capt. Andrews, one seaman, and the cook are reported drowned. The mate and the rest of the crew are at Mahia. The constable at Wairoa proceeded to the scene last night. There are no j articular*. The Reward belongs to Nelson.

COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY. Per Press Association. Wellington. May (1. 1 he annual balance-sheet of the Colonial Insurance Company, which is to he presented ou ( Wednesday next, shows the

receipts to be L 64.319 17s lid, and the expenditure L 64.935 6s 7d, there being a lo»a of LG 15 8a 8d on the year’s operations. The directors roport that this loss is a great disoppointme t, but nevertheless, the present position of the Company confirm* the anticipations of the directors fie expressed in their last year’s transactions. It is an improvement of LB2OO as compared with that of last year, and the result is obtained with L3SO4 less prsrniuiris end L 653 loss interest from investment*. '