INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 143, 17 June 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PRESS AQENOr.] . Wellington, Monday night. At a meeting of Insurance agents to»day, they voted £50 to each Brigade, and .£25 each to the Naval Brigade and Salvage Corps. Tuesday. The question o£ getting a Floating Steam Fire Engine is again being revived. The Wesleyan congregation have secured the Arcade in which to hold their services and their Sunday. The Kinross case is again adjourned till Thursday next. Two thirds of the losses sustained by the Transalantic Insurance Company by the late fire are covered by reinsurances in Home offices. Ashbdkton, Tuesday. The Mail appeared to-day in an enlarged form, being the largest broad sheet in the colony. The Borough Council have reduced day wages to 6s 6d and increased the number employed so as to find work for the idle. A farmer named Day has been committed for trial on three charges of concealing and removing his horses to defraud hia creditors, and obtaining money under false pretences. Christchukch, Tuesday. At a meeting of the City Council last night it was resolved not to co-operate with the Sydnham Borough Council in the matter of forming a belt, but to spend £500 in the city itself for the relief of the unemployed. The Christchurch Tramway Company intend to commence the first of a series of tramways in the city in about a month. A stormy meeting was held a£ Kiccarton last night, in reference to the dismissal by the Education Board of Mr Wilson, a teacher a: the Riccarton school, on the ground that he declined to instruct the children in drill. Mr Wilson declared that the primary cause of dismissal was his refusal to allow the Rev. C. Bowen, Commissioner, to introduce religious instruction into the school. This was not supported by the facts before the meeting, and the majority of those present strongly declined to accept it as true. A fire broke out at 6 o'clock this morning at the Hereford Boarding House in Durham Street South, which completely destroyed the building. The Brigade were quickly on the spot, and their exertions confined the fire to one building. There were a large number of boarders in the house, all of whom escaped. Part of the furniture was saved. The furniture was insured for £150 in the Transatlantic. The building was also insured.