INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3330, 30 May 1885, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

s (By Telegraph.) , Auckland, May 29. > At the sitting of the Electoral Revision i Court for City North a curious claim cropped t up. A protest was entered against J. Boss, i of Sargood, Ewen and Co., being struck off ; the roll for a freehold qualification, for the ■ allotment upon which the firm's warehouse i stands in "Victoria street, registered under the Land Transfer .Act in the name of J. 8. ■ Sargood. The question was adjourned, in i order that Mr J. P. Campbell, solicitor, might , call evidence to show cause to have his name i retained on the roll. Considerable importance , is attached to the decision, as it is considered ■ that if in favor of the claim it will affect all 1 joint stock and other companies of the city s by giving all shareholders possessed of a £25 9 qualification a right to vote. 1 Charles Noy, an old man, dropped dead at 1 Otahuhu from heart disease to-day. He had i been drinking. The City North Licensing Committee have , notified no less than six hotels of objections a to renewing their licenses on the grounds of 1 Sunday trading, insufficient accommodation E and not being required in the neighborhood. ' Steps are being taken to canvass tho city re 1 establishing a Company with a suggested . capital of £60,000 to work Lamonte's patent l for gold saving. , Wangantti, May 29. i Mr Bryce nddrcsses his constituents at 1 Waverley on Saturday night, and Wanganui • on next Wednesday. 3 Wellington, May 29. , The Government have received official inI timation that the New Zealand loau has been > placed on the London market at a minimum of 97*. F Tho Managor of the New Zealand Loan 1 and Mercantile Agency Company has re« ) ceived a cablo message from London to the ; effect that the meat by the s.s. Buapehu has ) arrived in bad condition, in consequence of 1 tho piston of the freezing machinery having broken on the voyage. ' Kebpton, May 29. ) The election of Chairman of tho County r Council was fixed for Wednesday last, the 2 Clerk of tho Council presiding. When ifc 3 came to voting parties were even, and the , County Clerk claimed the right to exercise a 3 castingvote, and did so in favor of Mr 0. i K. Craig. Mr Menteath pvoteated against - the legality of the Clerk's action, and the f meeting was adjourned to take outside legal i advice. At the Council meeting to-night, . Mr Craig did not take the chair, but proposed thatMr Menteath be temporary Chairman, } the inference being that the legal advice was 7 opposed to the action of the Clerk. The , motion was carried, and aubsequently Mr , Menteath was elected County Chairir on. I , Chbistohubch, May 29. " 3m. lts meetin S to-day, the Canterbury 3 Chamber of Commerce resolved to enlist the 1 other Chambers of this and the Australian > colonies in a combined effort to reduce the b charges on cable messages sent by the New i Zealand line.. The Chamber also resolved to I send to the Bouth Sea Islands a suitable • perion to inquire, in Hit wtemte of thii put

of New Zealand, into all matters of com mercial interest there, the cost to be borne b; subscriptions raised in Canterbury. The Women's Gospel Temperance Misßiot organised here by Mrs Leavitt, have resolvot to take vigorous action. The city anc suburbs have been divided into districts, foi the purpose of a house to house canvass bj the ladies, and public meetings are to be helc monthly. DcnediN, May 29. A man named H. B. Stanley, while clean' ing the spouting on tho roof of the Citj Hotel, slipped and fell through a Bkylight, b distance of 35 feet, on to the asphalt in the back yard. He is not expected to live. At the City Court to-day Sydney Knight was sentenced to two months' hard Jabor foi assaulting Chinese. The evidence disclosed a shocking state of immorality, tho prisonei obliging bis wife to live with Chinese. He is well connected in England, and is under' stood to be a remittance man. His childrer appearod in Court yesterday charged witli theft. Andrew Walziel, one of the original Otagc settlers, died yesterday, aged 80.