New Zealand.

Southland Times, Issue 15057, 28 September 1901, Page 2

New Zealand.

[Pkr United Press Association]. AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. The balance sheet of the South British Insurance Company for the year shows a credit balance in the working account of £33,373. After adding £5000 to the reinsurance fund, £20,000 is added to the reserve fund, and the directors recommende > the payment of a dividend for the second half-year at the rate of 2s 6d per share. I Kenneth Frank Christian, 14 months old, was choked by a lid of a chest falling on hie neck at his parents' residence. WELLINGTON, Sept. -27The chairman of the Underwriters' Association has received a cable message from the Victorian Underwriters' Association stating that the fire on the s.s. Papanui, whioh put into Vigo, has been extinguished, but all the cargo in No. 3 hold has been seriously damaged. TIMARU, Sept. T,. A. K. Austin, of Masterton, has been appointod harbour engineer at £400 per auuuni. There were 35 applicants. DUNEDIN, Sept. 27. At a meeting of the Queen's Memorial Fund Committee the subscriptions were stated to have totalled £2322. It was docided to accept a design, in marble, of late Queen Victoria, with two figures and two panels in bronze, at a cost of £2400 in Dunedin, subject to the plaster model meeting with approval. Colonel Webb was presented with a purse of sovereigns to-day by the members uf the OUgo Club on the eve of his departure to take up the command in the Canterbury district.