INTERPROVINCIAL.

Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9097, 15 February 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

INTERPROVINCIAL.

. DGi>S.3i Wellington. February 13. Two men named Sharp and Fenwick, residents of Petone, were sailing off Nga--1 hauranga last night in an open boat, when sho was capsized in a squall. Sharp was sav-?d b* a boot which put off from Nga--1 __aui.ir.--f--, bet rn si cm was fonnd of Fenwick, who sank at once. The bad,? ha"- not yet been recovered. Dunedin, February 13. Despite the showers which fell, about 6000 attended ther Dunedin Cycling Club's i sports, the feature of which was the three mils Provincial Championship which brought together the leading cash cyclists in i the Colony, arid also H. Reynolds, the Irish champion. E. Reynolds (Auckland) won ! with S. A. Maxwell 2, A. IS. Barker (Christchurch) 3. All but three had retired when i the last lap was entered, the pace being , very fast. Reynolds shot ahead and won ! by 4 yards, Maxwell beat Barker by a yard. > Time, 7min 13-Jsecs. E. Reynolds won the Half Mile Dash in lmin 6 l-ssecs. The i Dunedin Wheel Race resulted— A. Ralston, , 120 yards, 1 ; J. A, Holmes, 110 yards, 2 ; : L. V. Graham, 110 yds, 3. Time, 4mins 1 57 4-5 seCS. s The business of liquidating the Colonial L Bank is nearly done. The chief delay is in s awaiting the decision of the Supreme Court in Brooks' and Connell's cases, and the i winding up of one or two companies now in r liquidation in which the Bank is interested. , To reduce the cost to a minimum, applicaif tion will be made to the Court by the 1 liquidators to reduce the number of , liquidators, after which the cost will be . small. If the verdict in the cases refereed f to be in favour of the Bank, a dividend of I Is 6d or 2s a share is anticipated. In any 1 case a call is improbable. 3 The wind this week has seriously dami a<*ed the crops on the Taieri. The gram I shaken out varies from two to ten bushels The annual meeting of the Southland i Frozen Meat Company was held to day. e The balance sheet showed a net profit for s the year of £5093, which was distributed as [I follows :-— £1966 was written off the builde ing, etc., five per cent dividend on B preferential shares, and the balance of £2475 ii carried forward. The company has pur--3 chased the site on which the works stand i for £8000, and procured a new Haslem e freezing machine for £2500, which gives an e increase capacity over the Bluff works of ;, 2000 sheep per day, and has erected manure s works at a cost of £2500. The Chairman, i- Mr Cnthbert Cowan, and several other* r referred to the greatly improved position of t- the company, and the report and balance =-. sheet were unanimously adopted. During * the year the company exported nearly a ; million and a half rabbits. Q Auckland, February 12. i- The Presbyterian Church Assembly toe day reaffirmed the declaration of the pre- !- vious Assemblies regarding the importance of upholding thc national system ol »f education, with the introduction of a Scnpit ture text book, and approved of the formats tion of a National Scripture Education •- League. _ __ _^^^^