INTERPROVINCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1064, 26 April 1890, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(lir Electric Telegraph.)

(BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)

' „. DuS-edis, April 24. Sir Chailes and Lady Halle, musicians, will not be able to visit New Zealand. The Costley Home for aged poor at Auckland was opened by the Governor yesterday. Ihe Home is a Sue brick structure costing £7OOO, and was erected with the funds provided by the late Edw;ird Costley. Henry George will be unable to visit New Zealand,

Recent rains at Whangarei washed the flax mill clean away. It is understood that at the annual meeting of the Colonial Insurance Company on the 14th pros, at Wellington, the directors will recommend a payment of ten per cent dividend.

At Invercargill it is intended to give ench of the three simivors of the barque Emilie a kit costing £ls and a donation of a few pounds a-piece, and if possible to find them berths when they are able to resume duty. .Michael Mulkern, a farm laborer, met with a shocking fatal accident at Lawrence. The horses in the team of which he was in charge turned suddenly off the road, when Mulkern, who was slightly behind the dray, rushed forward to attend to them, and hi doing so was pinned by the fore part of the dray against the wall. The horses pulled fiercely at the traces until the chain snapped, increasing the terrible agony of the unfortunate man. The injuries he sustained were of a fearful character, all signs of life being almost crushed out of his body, and he diet! almost immediately. The Hon. T. W. Hislop, Minister of Education, addressed his constituents atOamarn last night, and at the conclusion of his speech a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence in the Ministry was carried. At the Resident Magistrate's Court George S. Brodrick sued Walter Hislop for-the sum of £SO. Plaintiff alleged that on 15th July defendant sold him, at the price of £SO, 500 shares in a company called the Golden Causeway Quartz-mining Company of Ncnthorn, of which Mr. L. A. Norman was legal manager ; that plaintiff paid £SO ; that there is no such company as that mentioned ; that plaintiff was induced to purchase shares through fraudulent misrepresentation; and that the floating of such company has been abandoned. For the defence, it was alleged that toe plaintiff purchased the shares as ordinary promoters' shares in the ordinary course before the com pany was registered, and in doing so knew perfectly well that he bad to take the risk of the company floating.—The case was adjourned.