IRONSIDE'S LIFE INSURED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7955, 27 August 1887, Page 2

IRONSIDE'S LIFE INSURED.

A Press Association telegram states that " David Ironside, who was killed oa the railway on Thursday, had just completed arrangements for insuring his lifa. He had made a proposal to tho Government agent, and had been accepted as a first-class life, acceptance of the' Department having been eommuniaatcd on the 17th August. He had desired not to insure for a month or two, but, Btrangely, one of the arguments used to convince him of the desirableness of insuring at once was that any day he might tumble off the engine, and then he consenlod to insure at once ; but deferred the first payment by giving an order on his September wages. The order was not quite accurate, owins; to a miscalculation on the part ot the Department, and when the notice was given of tho acceptance of his proposal at par, instructions were sent to Waitara (where he lived) that an amended order should be secured. This only occurred on Wednesday, and it is doubtful whether ho was seen by the local agent, or whether tho transaction was actually completed ; but the Government have decided to pay the amount of his policy, £200, lees tho payments to have been made in September."

As a result of the recent meetings of wholesale houses in Auckland in reference to the regulation of trading, a uniform' system of discount and terms of credit have been arranged. The arrange ui ants Game into force this week. Tho London correspondent of tho Sydney Morning Herald has the following — " During the time the service was being conducted in the Abbey, by special command of His Holiness the Pope, ono of tho moat olaborale and impressive services was taking place in the Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral at Kensington. Monsignor RuiEo Scilla, the Envoy Extraordinary from the Vatican to the British Coiut, celebrated High Mass. No such service, in point of pomp and splendour, over took place in tho country since the daya of the Reformation. The investiture iv the street of the Envoy with what is known as tho 'Cappa Magna' was novor witnessed before in a London street, at least, in modern times. The cathedral was packed to Buffo.cation, and at the conclusion, what is a very raro thing in a Roman Catholic Church, the National Anthem was sung by tho congregation." From a recent number of the Sydney Morning Herald we notice that for the four weekß up to thc2BtU July tho public rbvenue of New South Wales allowed an increase, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, of no leaa than £158,000. . It has been discovered that tho Sydney harbour is silting up, the soundings recently made by the Sydney Harbour Tunnelling Syndicate revealing tho fact that an enormous sill bed runs right across from Fort Macquarie to the northern foreshore,