LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12377, 10 February 1911, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

AUCKLAND, this day. Charles G. Knox, commission agent, was found lying on the floor of his office in Hobson buildings. His head was on a cushion. There was a. revolver alongside' him. A bullet had passed from the right eye through the top of his head. He was still alive when removed to the hospital. WANGANUI, this day. William Harradine Holden, grocer's assistant, single, aged 41, was found dead in his father's shop this morning with lin empty bottle of lysol beside him. It is supposed that he committed suicide. WELLINGTON, this day. Representatives of various sports waited on Sir Joseph Wftrd this afternoon w,tll a request that the Government should give monetary assistance towards sanding Home New Zealand athletes to compete at the Festival of Empire sports in connection with the Coronation. Sir Joseph replied sympathetically. He ask< c<l that the deputation give full details as. to the cost likely to be involved. • The annual camp meeting and conference of the New Zealand Soventh Day Adventists is being hed at Petone. Hj lasts till the 19th February. It was! stated that there had been many con^, verts to the order during tho year, and various institutions were in a flourishing condition. The recommendations of the | committee in the direction of developing the . work -of the denomination were adopted. - . I . DUNEDIN, this day. At to-days sittings of the Arbitration | V, ol r rfc . an application to enforce schedule J * hxmg tho minimum wages and conditions of labor for the makers of women's! apparel, was held over pending the hear; King of similar applications from other parts ol the Dominion. The thirty-seventh annual report of the -Standard Fire Insurance Co. states that, the income for the year ending December 31st last amounts to £134,803 and the expendituic to £106.053, leavi ing a balance of £28,749. From this an interim dividend waa paid in June ast amounting to .£2812. Th© directors have added £10,000 to the reserve fund and £2500 to the reinsurance fund and recommend that tho balance be appropriated as follows: To a dividend for the half-year ended December 31st, at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, 'abwrbing £3000; bonus, 6d per share, £2500; to carry forward to next year* i ±57936.