INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this, day. A lire destroyed a five-roomed house at Takapuna owned by Mrs. Riff tern and .occupied by Mr. McCarolo and liis family. Mr. ■ and Airs. AlcOarole, and three children got out with nothing but their night clothes. The house was insured for £750 in the Northern Assurance office, tho furniture for £750 in the Australian Provincial, and £4OO in the Northern office. WANGANUI,' this day. A man named Vowles, aged about 35 years, supposed to bo an Australian, with relatives in Adelaide, was seen to jump into the Alangamahu river on Friday. It is believed he was drowned, as the river was in high flood. Kitto’a woolshed, containing two hundred sheep, was destroyed by lire at Brunswick this morning. The sheep were burned to death. WELLINGTON, this day. At a meeting! of tho City Council last night if was decided to make additions to tho city rate, which will approximate Id por cent. CHRISTCHURCH, this day.

On Hie- casting vote of the Deputy Mayor (Mr A. Me Keller) tile, City Council rescinded a resolution adopting proportional representation. Of eight who voted for a continuance of the system, six were Libor, one Independent, and one a member of the Citizens’ Association, which secured a majority of the seats at the last election. The. City Council decided to charge 2/6 registration fee for bicycles, the fee to include a numbered rad reflector, a. quantity of which have been landed from England at a cost of s£d each. During the discussion it was stated that registration might, bo ineffective in checking theft, hut the reflectors; were necessary for traffic safety. A new by-law is necessary to give effect to the derision. Sales on ’Change: per cent, bonds, 1939, £97; New Zealand Refrigerating Co., 12s 9d ; Crown Brewery Co., 545. (Special to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day.

Inscribed stock —buyers, 1938, £95 10s: 1933, £lOl 15s; 1929, £9B; 1927, £9B 5s ; banks—Australasia, buyer 271 s ; National, seller 140 s; New South Wales, buyer £4O sa; New Zealand, buyer 61s 9d, seller 62s 6d; Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., buyer 45s 9d ; insurance—South British, seller 41s; Refrigerating Co., 10s paid up, seller 13s; Huddart, Parker Co., buyer 445; Union Steam, pref., buyer 20s 5d ; Wellington Woollen Co., buyers 182 s, seller 183 s 6d; timber — buyers, Kauri 285,; Leyland O’Brien 37s ; Burns, Philp and Co., seller 32s 6d; Manning’s Brewery Co., seller 132 s 6d; National Electric Co., seller 20s 3d; Drug Co., seller 65s 6d; Ward’s Brewery Co., seller 45s 6d; Wilson’s Cement Co., buyer 27a.