INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11231, 21 March 1908, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

"' H: (Per Press Association.) PALM ERSTON N. . this day. The compensation case, in which Mr E. J. Riddiford claimed £2000 from the Minister <>f Railways in respect of a piece of land taken from the. frontage of iiis property at Longbum, jji connection with the . Fbxton-New Plymouth railway, was heard at the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr Justice Coopeiy. An amount of, evidence- was given, and an arrangement was arrived at whereby the claimant should receive £3CO in full satis, faction of his claim,, and also two level crossings giving 1 access to his property, each party to pay their own costs and 15 guineas to .each ..of the assessors. FEILDING, this day. An important sale of 'suburban - sections for residential sites, the sifc,uaiion : being just outside the borough boundary, was held last night. There were 24 sections sold, and prices were equal to £300 per acre. Buyers came from this district and from Wellington and the South Island, v ' ' WELLINGTON, this day. The Superannuation Board is to meet four times a year, and hold special meetings when required. Members only receive travelling expenses and special leave. The Public Trustee ■ shall vest the fund in freeholdsecurities at current rates of interest. Uninvested funds will bear the common fund, rate of interest. Allowances tq widows and children will be payable on the . last day of each month. . . > !Mi' -Justice Qhapman to-day sentenced Ronald Grant Gilbert aJias Georpp Moom to six months' inipvifionmenfc with liardi labor for theft, and) u Maori youth was ordered to come up, for sentence when called upon on a similar charge. Mr Aitkin has consented to contest the Mayoralty • against Mr Hislop, , the present Mayor. ; ■-• ■:& CHRISTOHURCH, this day. Rain was general in Canterbury throughout Thursday alight and yesterday morning-, the. fall being sufficiently heavy to give the land a soaking that will do much good to grass and feed crops. Rain fell heavily all last nighty and continues. ' ■ DUNEDIN, this day. At the Police Court, James Geddes, licensee; of the Oouglas hotel, was charged before Mr Widdpwson, S.M., with unlawfully permitting drunkenness on his Hfeehlsea premises, arid with selling liquor to persons already in a state of intoxication. The case was dismissed, on the ground that there was no evidence that the person obtained . the liquor which made him drunk at the hotel in question. The Magistrate said| however, this case emphasised the prevalence of juvenile drinking. It showed a deplorable state of things in regard to the young men of Dunedin and to the young men of the Dominion. / The annual meeting of shareholders in Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.'s New Zealand Drug Co.- was held to-day. The chairman, Mr Bathgato in, moving the adoption of the ropOrt and balance sheet, said the reserve on customers' accounts was £2992, and the fire insurance reserve was £605, an increase of £303 on last year. The chairman explained that he thought the fire cover was fairly satisfactory and every opportunity was taken to increase it. the source of safety from serious disaster lay in the fact that tke cover extended over eight different? risks. In the four centres the staff fund amounted to £3329, open accounts and liabilities t0. £79,352, and bills payable to £11,223. Stock was valued at £175,486, land, buildings, plant and machinery at £102,---737 as against £99,559 last year. Book debts owing were £56,566, as against £59,955' last year ; bills receivable, in hand, '£966, and cash in bank £3264. The chairman said the business during the past year had been satisfactory, and he thought the Company could lou>k forward to the coming year with confidence. The motion was carried. Messrs George Sievwright and John Mill were re-elected directors, and Messrs W. R. Holmes (Auckland), C. P. Pawles (Wellington), G. W. Hulme (Christchurch), and William Brown and Co. (Dunedin), auditors. At Milton, John McNeill, a farmer at Circle Hill, was lined £10 and costs on a charge of having in his possession the varcaso of a sheep, not having lawfully come by the same, and on a charge of being in possession of a sheepskin from which the ears had been removed, he was convicted and ordered to pay costs. INVERCARGILL,* this day. Adam Middlemen, a. lad, was remand, ed yesterday on a charge of having placed on the Kingston line, at Garston, a quantity of material sufficient to have derailed the train. George Holmes, alias Albert Patrick. Newman, pleaded guilty to havinp forged the name of W. Stuart to an authority for J. H. Kirk and Co. to pay George Holmes £15, and having uttered the same to John Brookes. Accused was remanded for sentence by the Supreme Court.