LATEST AUCKLAND

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7879, 28 July 1894, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND

TA'UPIRI COAL COMPANY. • Auckland, July 27, At tho half-yearly meeting of tho Taupiri Coal Company, a dividend was declared of Is per share, absorbing 181200. £752 was written off for depreciation/ i-WABNING TO OONTfcAOTOBS. An incident arising out of the case Pritty y. Daw, efc Baglan, should be i , warning to contractors. The plaintiff, to prove his case, had ;o produce the contract" from de* endant, and, this being unstamped, ;he' unfortunate contractor was nulcted in the usual fine, £h, and iad to pay it before the case was Mowed to proceed. ACCIDENT INSURANCE COM- • PANY.

I The directors of the Now Zealand Insurance Ooiripany have declared an - interim dividend of 6| per cent, for the. half year, ended 30th June last. i ; v . NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. At a meeting of ; tjhe Auckland Branch of the Nationajl Association a resolution was passed : .|o the effect that the Association.'.viewed with alarm the.proposals inCtHe Financial Statement as invblviflg a large increase in the public ; deb6t % AUCKLAND CfAS |tiifPANY. At the half-yearly meeting of the Auokland 'Gas dividend was declared for the hallyear of 7a 6d per share on old shares and 3s 9d on new.-- ' ,^h

■ , A FIRE AT WHAKAPIRAU. The other house of Mr B; Johnston, , at' was discovered to bo on &t&} Mr Byrne • was the firat to raise the : alara, hav;irig noticed flames issuing from the . / chimney (awopden plenty of willing soon upon the scene, includingt&ost of the employees'from Mr Cbapack's saw- • mill and.Mr'JAckman'egum store. On effecting an entrance, tjie whole of thexhimney was founds be in a • ...;. blaze, and the flames curii.nl , over the ,■ mantlepiece towards the qeiling. A . few minutee later the'roof would have been on fire, and nipiing could haveeaved the house fKjjjta destruction. However by '-tfie prompt . measures taken in cutting away the chimney, and the judicipuk application • of water, of which thore^ivag , a good supply, the, rest of the building now "remains, with the exceptull|of broken window panes., comparably unin* jured. The cause of five is enveloped in mystery. Mr Johnson, who is a widower, left for w'ork after breakfast, leaving everytljteg, as he considoredjsafe, and fche'cMldren left for school, taking thefr liineh with them. The building and;furniture were uninsured. The damage is . estimated at £10. . h-C; ■ V TAWHAIO ANti HIS SEORETAEY. ' The " Herald" has'receiyMa letter from Tawhiao, asking it •fo li publißh a proclamation issued by him- ? ;t6 Keroi Kaihau, notifying that thi& seal in his possession is withoutif authority, and that hie verbal ntttrance3 are unauthorised. TawhiaOr ; Vthuß addresses the erring Kerei jKaihatt, who is now. languishing in Mount Eden: " Your aot& do not emanatl from mo. Do not come to me. JB&ep away. I willileyer ßay ioyou come to me; never; keep away. The/seM "which I applied for from yoUj ypu did not give up { you will Paid o :mtmU will inform you»% Tawhiao adds :~"lioHhes9 lines The worda'ln my lettor dp': not refer ; to Ng'dtitipa or to their land, i ndeed ■ I said to Ngafcitipa 'you .must look after your own lands, you are the people to do 50. , " .- A DEMAND FOR;is|4. While the Kohimarama|Jndußtrial School waa in its late master (Mr.G. Hogan) collected public subscriptions for of purchasing a Bteam launch , , for the . use jof the institution, so lo jtivoid the labour/and danger of thewe pulling, to and from in bad A goodly Buta wasralsed, and to launch purchased, but on the closing of. the Kohimarama Industrial School the launch was.eold, aid itis'eaid, eoine £114, swept.into the Colonial Treasury. Mr C.vDacre and others have seen the eubscribers, and it is intended to request thd; Government to refund the money, pr at least give it to some of the Auckland 'f. ' Institu.tipne-jay the Institute for the \ Bliiid or the Benevolent Society—as ~;<th"e donors of jihe money never imagined they were making a gift of £114 .' to. the t . consolidated fund. Mr Mitcholson, M.H.E., regards.tho request as a reasonable one, and is prepared to co-operate in getting the Governto consent.