INTERPHOVINCIAL.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6110, 24 July 1886, Page 2

INTERPHOVINCIAL.

• 1 (BT 9KLKC«A?K.) AUCKLAND. July 23. The poll of ratepayer! of the borough of Newton yesterday on the loan propcsa'i for water supply and drainage resulted in 171 vo! es for and 97 against befog given . Those in favor not being a majority "f tb* votera on the roll, the proposal wss rejro^ed. Arrive:! — a.i. Arawata, from Oamaru ; bri^antine Gals, from Dunedin. The City Council hstnighr, with reference to the Contagious DiS3a«ra Aot, resolved that consideration of the petition and letteri on the subjeot be deferred, pending tha result of the repeal bill now bsfore the House of Representatives. At a meeting of the unemployed a resolution was carried soliciting Government to let the Kultl contract of the North Islend Trunk Railway io short r ctions fo the unemployed. The City Council bsi referred the question, to tbe Streets Committee of providing work for the unemployed by Instructing them to se'eot works in the City which could be gone on with. W. H. Fenton and Co'i bankruptcy, account! ihow unsecured liabilities ot L 5833. The rusts are stated *t L 61 17. The firm were extensive hatters. The whole of the orew of the Petrol are now discharged. The mate Foley remains In Auckland, Mendoz* becoming now first mate. WELLINGTON. July 23. The long service and good conduct presentation medals to volunteers ar* baing manufactured. The first wsi struck thin morning, and ia of pure Thames silver. At the Supreme Court, in the cane of Hollister v. the Aeoident Insurance Co. of New Zealand, the Attorney-General, for the Company, argued that the amount of policy could not be recovered *wing to notice of the aeoident which caused the death of HollisUr not being given within seven days as required, by the policy. Justice R ; chmond atked whether such a condition would stand in a oase where » person disappeared, and it was not known for come time afterwards that he wai dead. The Attorney General siid that appeared to be it. Hii Honor replied that if the public were awireof that state of things he did not think a company insuring againat aeoident would do much business. His Honor entered up judgment for the defendania. . A deputation from the Wellington Hotel and Property Protection Society waited on Johnston and Co*., agents fo.' the Union Insurance Co. to-day with reference to the lervicei of Mr M'Rae in connection with the recent eruption! at Wairoa. Mr Johnston received the deputation very courteously, and premised to do all In hii power to favorably represent Mr M'Rae'i case toHhe board of director!.

WOODVILLE. July 23. T. F. Raymond, jeweller, on a charge of anon, has been committed for trial.

OHBISTOHURCH. July 25. Mr Robinson, of the firm of M'Ksone and Robinson, contractors for the first lection of tbe Midland Railway, arrived here to-day from Australia, via Wellington. As he left England before the contract with his firm was definitely settled, he will aw^it tbe arrival of instructions on this subject by the mail. Mrs E. Wakefield's jewellery, that was stolen from tfie house of her father, Mr Hall, at Papanni, waa found In a> paddock near the house this afternoon. The police ar* very reticent, and full particulars are not to hand, bat it ii stated that tbe document! whioh were stolen with the jewellery were not with the art ; cles recovered. The whole affair appears very tnysteiious, as it ii difficult to imagine what the object of the thief ooald be.

HO&ITIKA. July 23. Work In the Ross United Company's mine is Doing steadily pushed forward on to the washdirt, and the mining manager is getting face whJca will soon enable him to open out. List week 1 ! returns, 4l£ozs., •re considered geed, seeing the working ?9 still very confined, A valuable discovery at Oliver Bang* of several large lodes, on containing white malleable metal, ha! been made by Douglas the well kauwn explorer. Sample! have been lent to Dr Hector for analysis.

DUNEDIN. July 23. A four-roomed house) belonging to Mr Orr, at North East Valley, has be*n burned down. It wm insured io the Union office for Ll5O. The bodies of Cameron and the boy Honaan, buried by the fall of a tunnel at Kftwuaa Gorge, were recovered. The .

man was not disfigured muoh but the boy s was frightfully cruahed, fc The dress of Mrs M'Donsld, wifa of a ship carpenter, caught Bra while the c was, burnlDg some rubbish, and not i notioing it ehe went outside when it j bl»z*d up and burned her to aerioaily i that hor recovery Is doubtful. < BLUFF. ! July 23. i Arrlred, to-day— Heather Bell, b»rque, i Event, from Lyttelton, with part cargo i . from Adelaide, to load grain for Australia. !