INTERPROVINCIAL
[united pbess association.]
In the B.M. Court yesterday, Mr Shaw, R.M. gave judgement m the case of Property Tax Commissioner v. Greatnex. Queition at isßuo was, whether the firm here, being a branch of the English House, cofild set off the debts due to the Home branch against the assets m the Colony. The magistrate decide 1 they could not and fined the defendants m the minimum penalty of £5.
Oamabu, Jnne 9.
The weather was wet for the steeplechase meeting. Maiden Plate— Sailor Boy 1, Twilight 2, Novice 3. Steeplechase HandicapSeven started ; Clarence 1, Chandler 2, Winfield 3. • '
Dunedin, This Day. There were four insolvencies this week, the principal one being Bichard Evans, of Dunedin, debts L 1.999, assets 2,098. £
The directors of the Permanent Building Society complain of such extensive competition of monetary institutions that the Building Society is not longer useful, and recommend its conversion into a loan company, Christchuhch, This Day. In the Magistrate's Court this morning, John Prescott, charged with several acts of indecent exposure of a peculiarly revolting chaiacter, was sentenced to three years' hard labor.
Auckland, This Day. A fire at McLean : s Fen Court, beyond Cambridge, destroyed a large two-storey building, consisting of stables, hay loft, a ten horse-power engine, chaff cutter. LIOO worth of grass seed, and implements. The fire originated m thn loft, bat tbe origin is unknown. It was insured m the New Zealand Office.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 134, 10 June 1881, Page 2
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237INTERPROVINCIAL Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 134, 10 June 1881, Page 2
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