NEW ZEALAND

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5012, 21 May 1889, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND

(By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, May 20. An interim dividend of 10 per cent per annum has been declared by the National Insurance Company. By the Zealandia, which sailed to-day, Hanlan was a passenger to San Francisco. A number of the friends of Mr T. U. Ivey, who leaves to assume the management of the head office of the Bank of New South Wales in Sydney presented him with an address and purse of sovereigns to day. HOKITIKA, May 20. Henry Dean, a young man working at the sawmill, Kumara, who was injured by a falling tree, died at night. Ho never recovered consciousness. John Nolan, a miner at the Blue Spur, was killed in his sluicing claim this morning by a fall of earth. He was only partially buried, but failing stones struck him in several places. He never spoke, but moved his hands twice and died as soon as extricated from the dirt. There is excitement at a rich find of alluvial gold on the Hokitika _ borough boundary on the south side of the river. The gold is on private property, and tho extent of the load is not yet known.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 20. Mr Eden George, a candidate for Christchurch Norlh, addressed a crowded meeting at tho theatre to-night. Ho declared himself a protectionist, in favour of local option, a modified Haro system of election, and a reduction in the number of members. A vote of confidence was passed, but many present did not vote. Mr Samuel Charles Jolly, another candidate, addressed a smaller but disorderly meeting at tho Oddfellows’ Hall. The meeting was evidently disposed to look on his candidature as a joke, and interrupted him continually. Ho announced himself as the working men’s candidate. A vole of thanks only was passed.

ASHBURTON, May 20. '

The premises and plant of the Ashburton i Woollen Manufacturing Company, in liquidation, have been sold to the Mosgiol Company. The latter have agreed to carry on the factory for at least three years. There is every prospect of the creditors of the Ashburton company having their claims pail in full, INVERCARGILL, Mat 20. The Southland hospital trustees held a meeting to enquire into the complaints unde by the relatives of the late Mr Alexander Douglas, that alterations involving the breaking down of walls and the opening of windows of the ward in which he lay had been allowed when he was in a critical state. As Mr Douglas died of pneumonia, the inference was that it had been induced by exposure. The staff having been examined the trustees passed a resolution to the effect that they had found that work had been carried on which they much regretted, owing-to the absence of the house steward through illness, but the result went to show that Mr Douglas’ death was not to be attributed to exposure.