INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15320, 16 September 1920, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Prtas Association.) ■ , OPpTIKI, this day. } Sydney Harold Mallandain, a returned soldier;, agf'ed 27, . was : drowned m , the.' itaukokof-o river at noon yesterday 1 De-, ceased was latterly from Auckland, and was employed oa a farm at Omiiip. He^ was attempting to cross on foot, when he was swept away by the current. His! mate was standing on the bank and wit r nessed tho Deceased had no? relatives iii the Dominion. &i.s motherresides ,'ih England. The body has * been!. recovered. ,-,-'■ : '-., * WANGANUI, last night. A split has occurred yin the :.'rank_ ■• of;, the Waiiganui yR;S '. A . . , •• At fa 1 nioeting at. vote of no confidence 'was passed m the members' of the committee- for .iforitihgjto; the Wanjjanui Jpdkey ' Gliib, stating that' the practice on : the ; part : bf '•'. the . club m issuing ,free tickets , to its race meeting, was no longer desired. '.The meeting was; a stormy one,- and' oh the vote being carried the president and other -members of* the executive' designed. * r ■ ' '■' WELLINGTON, last night. The ratepayers -Voted -m favor- "Of. the' City Council's lbah: proposal-, rtggregat- ! ing £1,700|00G. Thbro SVeio nine separate ■ proposals, covering water supply, street^ works, traniway "oxteusfons. bathsj; general amp'royomcuts, a new tunnel .through^ Mt. Victoria, and ■ fire protection, and' equipment. AU .wore carried by ropghly,' a-, majority of three tb. two. „ Of-. 66m_j ! 21,000 oh tho roll, only about 5000" Voted.. y, THOKITIKA, this, day.y J Tho' Wfistlah'd .Presbytery, revived yuiianimoilsly, "'Thai? the ■'-Pi-esbytery' is' of Opinion that tho "amendment of the Marriago Act now before " P&riiamfent .'" is urgently; needed to protect. .-from .iiiter-. ferencd parties who have been . lawfully, married, ahd wSWii strongly urge that: such amendment bo passed into law." ; ... THE SHAREMARKJBT. ■>. WELLINGTON, this day. . fcanks— National,' buyer 1295" 6 d, seller 1325; New ; South Wdles, buyer 683s 6d, seller 6dos; New Zealand-, • 6cllcr . 5505; Union, buyer- 280s, seller 287s 6A; Goldsbrough's, *. buyer 47s 6d ; insurance— South British, buyer 102s, Belief 1975; StandaTd, seller * Bos; Gear Meat Co., buyer 45sJ(W f . seller 46s 9d; Huddurt, Parker Co., teller 56b; Sharl&nd^, buyer 30s 6d; WilsSh's Cement Co., seller 17s; Grand Junction/ seller 10s 4d.— Herald Specialv