WITHIN THE COLONY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 237, 7 December 1894, Page 3

WITHIN THE COLONY.

(Per Press Association)

Wellington, This Day.

The Bank of New Zealand has m ido a call of j£3 bs Hd per share on ordinary shares, payable in three instalments in Wellington and London on February Ist, August Ist and November 25th, 1895. The call, if paid in full, will produce halfa million. In a circular addressed to the shareholders it is explained that the call is made in pursuance of clause 5 of the Bank of New Zealand Guarantee Act, 189-1. It is considered necessary for the welfare of the Bank to call in and cancel one-half the estates company’s 5\ debentures amounting at present to a million and a-half. The directors regret the necessity of this call but they believe it to be in the true interests of the shareholders and conductive to the success of tho Bank. Mr 0. J. Andrews, who has been for some years Inspector of the Bank of New Zealand in Australia, arrived here yesterday tc take up the position of inspector and acting general manager of the Bank. The City Council has re olvci to devote .£.'6000 to the purchase of a threeacre paddock at the Thorndon end of the city for a recreation ground, subject to a pull of tiie rat. payers. The Council has intimated its intention to strictly enforce tho Servants’ Registry Act. Chuistciirnf■ h, This Day. A man named A. Id. McGurr, n widower from wair Ashburton, was burned to death in a fire which partially destroyed a two-roomed .house in St. Asaph street. C. Taylor was .al o badly burned and was taken to the hospital. These two men with another had been in the house dur- . Tiivior, who was injured bv the lire, is dead. Dunk din, This Day. Tiie Minister of Lands, who readied town last evening, explains in reference to the complaint of tiie Masterton Reform Association, as telegraphed, that the land was taken up under the Act of 186.7, and tiint the regulations under that Act gave power to add two years’ rent to the capital value. The Association, however, came undei the Act of 1892, thus getting the rent reduced from 5 to 4 per cent, hut losing the privilege of having two years’ rent capitalised. Notice of survey was given on the 28th of November, 1893, and that rent would commence on tho Ist of .1 . ury, 1 I, i. nag p tyabl) in advanc •. The amount was uot stated then. On the 16th of November, 1894, further notice was sent asking for payment of January and July rents, and the notice was in the usual form. The Knights of Labor have carried a resolution protesting emphatically against tho appointment of a judicial bench who are known to be opposed to the reform in the liquor traffic. The NVairarupa relief fund committee have decided to make the following apportionments:—Mrs Bourke, wife of a seaman, who is loft with eight children, L; 1.7 IDs; Mrs McDonald’s four children, LBl2 17s; Mrs McLeod, wife of a seaman I, J I arc to be placed in tho bauds of trustees and distributed over a period of nine years. Tho sum of LI4O was divided among the members of the crow. None of the money raised locally is to bn sent , elsewhere.

Karikh, This Day. i At. the inquest on Mrs Tyne, who died ! suddenly while undergoing an operation j under chloroform for the arrest of j hemorrhage, a verdict was returned that death was due to syncope. The verdict enliri 1) i ion< rated the d >ctor i. A man named George Marsh, 40 years of age, single, was killed whilst quarrying on the Bluff Mill this morning, lie fell 100 f- et bringing a quantity of earth down, lie wa i partially buried in the debris. Woodville, This Day. Yesterday’s express train from Napier to Wellington was stuck up in the Manawatu Gorge on the Woodville side of the tunnels. 11 is reported|that the tender left the rails in crossing one of the iron viaducts and 15 sleepers river tho viaduct were smashed to pieces. The tender having been kept up by the girders prevented I a more serious accident. '}■ riRTON, Thi Day. ; Mr Hogg, M.H.R., was entertained at , a large , i:il I; ! evening, an I presented ; with an illuminated t* .!unonial Mid a purse of fifty-six sovereigns. The | proceedings were almost entirely non--1 political, the Ministry not being

represented. Mr Hogg ‘is to revive a supplement r . purse nt an 1 •rlv d ... i ■ ■ A miner mimed Barrett w.m killed in th Talisman claim at Karangahapo. Id, was found drowned on Kohinmrama , ■ It. found hot through th® head. It m nippo ' d to he a case of suicide. The cause is unknown. The wife of James Moore, aged 29, was .i in a ( The Ovalau from Tonga brings news Imdly diming'sf by gelling on reef u t '. i!:i"i Lof:.. The cm mof c w.i diseiu.rgod and the vessel will jMobubly be sold.'