INTERPEOYINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 1897, 28 November 1877, Page 3

INTERPEOYINCIAL.

[Press Agency.] ■ Auckland, Nov. 27. The Auckland Steam Packet Company meets to-morrow to consider the propriety of winding up. The tender of Richard White (£9790) for reclamation between Waterman's and Now Dock was accepted by the Harbor Beard to-day. • At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board a resolution was passed urging the Government to employ Price to complete the purchase of the Te Aroha block, so as to carry out the agreement with Broomhall, and open land for settlement. Tho acceptances- for the Auckland Cup and Steeplechase closed on Friday. Thirty horses m Auckland are m training for the forthcoming races, and severa expected from the South. The Regatta Club decided that the large yacht race shall ..be . open only to vessels between" six and fifteen tons. The amateur rowing race is, restricted to blubs formed three months before the race. The Champion Open Scullers' race is withdrawn. ■ ■ ' A dividend is declared m the National Fire and Marine Insurance Company. The total receipt of the Indian Famine Fund is £1849 18a 6d. ! . : „; , Napier, Nov. '27. The amount collected to date for the Indian Famine Fund m Hawke's Bay is £1470. There' are subscriptions'still coming m. Wellington, Nov. 27. The Superintendent of , the Cable Company at Sydney notifies that the steamer Duke of Edinburgh had repaired the Singapore and -Bafavia cable- wheu the mail steamer left Banjoewangie on ' the 14th. The Duke of Edinburgh may, however, be expected at Port Darwin about the end of the month. The Torres Straits mail steamer reaches Townsville . (the first telegraph station) on the. 29th." A fire occurred at the Hutt to-day m a boot and shoe store Belonging to Mr McKenzie. No one was on the premises; The: stock was insured for '£2oo, m the Liverpool, London, and Globe Office. ; ■„.•■ Palmebston NortH, Nov. 27. „ A fire occurred; here to-day m Mr H. Suelson's house. It was got under before the building was entirely' destroyed. The probable loss is,' £2ooo. The insurances are — £400 m the South British, £630 m the Victoria, and a heavy one m the Liverpool and London. The , exact amount is not yet known. ... i Grbymouth, Nov. 27. • The salmon ova . is now- all hatched. The estimated'nuinber of live fish is from forty to forty- five thousand. : . . : KIJMABA, NOV. 27. A fire occxirred at midnight' last night, at Roulton and Mcllroy's, grocers. The Brigade was promptly on f -he spot, and behaved splendidly. There was a good supply of water. Tho Times office, next door, was for some time m danger, but the fire was confined to the place where it began.' The damage is estimated at £1000, which is covered by insurance m the, Standard for £800, and m the Imperial for £400. V