GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9023, 31 October 1892, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

West port, Saturday. The coal export for the week ended Saturday was 3002 tons. Nelson, Saturday. All the pupils of the Nelson Girls' College, for first and second terms examination, have successfully passed. : ' •< A man named Imurant, a maltster, wad found dead at Dovedale. The cause is nob known. n, I Napier Saturday. 1 In the Divorce Court to-da/ evidence is ■ the Taupo case was concluded • Greymouth, Saturday. The week's export of ooal is 3128 tons. OAMARU, Saturday. Miss C. Fergusson (Dunedin), has been, appointed Lady Principal of Waitaki High' School, and Mies E. C:;ossley (Christchurch), first assistant. Applications were received from all parts of the colony, Melbourne ana Hobart. „ , , Dpnedin, Saturday. ? The National Insurance Company 3 balance-sheet shows that the available balance, including £6953, brought forward, is £23,461, out of which the Rectors recommend a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, and a bonus of 2$ per cent, for the year, and carry forward £11 207 ' v *' L - ~ The Mosoriel Woollen Company report that after marking off £2000 for depreciation there is a balance of £3303, OU'D of which £2940 goes in dividends, making 8 per cent, for the year, and carrying forward £363. • . | -■ The Dunedin Gold Dredging 1 Comiiany obtained 31 ouuces of gold last week. y. * Sunday. The directors of the Mutual Agency Company recommended the payment of a dividend of 8 ; per cent, per annum and a bonus of 2s. per share to original shareholders in reduction of the goodwill, and after writing off 10 per cent, from plant, and one-third '• for, preliminary expenses to carry forward^ balance of £856. At the ihquasb on the body found on the .Otago Central Line, the relatives of .Gummock; the engineer, who lias been miss.ing for some months, failed to identify it as his. "