INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3413, 4 September 1885, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckland, Sept. 3. Mr Justice Gillies thia morning delivered judgment in a case brought by the Official Assignee to recover £200 from the Board of Education, being the ealary paid to one of fcno Board s emplovees after ho end filed. The Assignee claimed the money for the I creditors. His Honor held that members of the Board were personally liable to pay £200, and gave judgment accordingly. A company to bo called the Perongia Mineral Association, has been formed to prospect the King Country for gold. The capital is £2500. Three experienced Thames prospectors have been engaged. Marshal Booth and Major Barrett left for the South to-day. A farewell meeting to them at the Salvation Barracks last night was packed. Hundreds were turned away. During Marshal Booth's musion 200 penitents have come forward, and at last night's meeting a number of Chinamen and fallen women were preient. Wellington, Sept. 3. A football match was play ed this afternoon between Taranaki and Wellington, and was won by the latter by one try to nil. King obtained the try in the first quarter of an hour. In tho remainder of the game, there was no score, but the visitors were penned on their goal line nearly the whole of the last ■pell. Westfoht, Sept. 3. Captain Gibbs, of the Orowaiti, which arrived from Lyttelton, reports when three miles south of West Wanganui he observed several men on the beach, some of them waving what wag taken to be red shirta. He also saw an object thought to be a boat, but the weather came on hazy and obscured the view. Chbistchuech, Sept. 3. By a fire at Eyrcton last night several stacke, containing 1200 bushels of beans, and a threshing mill, steam engine and dray, the property of Mr Beal, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at £500, and there was no insurance. The depth of the bore at tho Southern Cross Petroleum Company's ground is reported to be 365 feet, and driving ia much easier. Forty men employed nt the Addington Bailway workshops have been suspended for absenting themselves from work yesterday afternoon to attend tho West Coast railway demonstration. They had been led to believe by someone connected with the League that Government would grant them a half-holiday, as all the other workmen in the district had one. The Chairmen of the City Council and the Bailway League have telegraphed to the Government explaining the matter and asking for the men to be reinstated. n., , Dusedin, Sept. 3. Xho annual meeting of tho Chamber of Comf k « / MrMoclerras.who in the absence of the President delivered the usual address. He stated that the agricultural ond pastoral industries were more depressed than list year Ihe following resolution was praed :— "That m order to «trengthen the hands of Otueo members of Parliament in resisting the beginning of now public work., especially the East and West Coast railway, and generally those involving an increase 'of borrowing on the part of the colony, this Chamber is of opinion that any vote proposed for the initiation of the East and West Coast railway should bo opposed, irrespective of tho effect, ?>* ur iir Op rt io " °" othor To(es on <he Public Works i,«timat«s." The names of tho men in the boat at Port Molyneux were Walter Summerell, whoso body has come ashore, and Frank Wildermot HuminoreU had lately come from Auckland .. , „ ISVKECAROILI, Sept. 3. At the Supremo Court to-day tho caso Elliott v. Morrison was called on. This was an action to compel tho defendant to complete an agreement to purchaso land. The defence was that the land was reprcsonM as being free from liability to flooding by the Mataura Biver, which it was not. After the hearing His Honor reserved his decision for a week. Tho Court then rose, after a nine days' leiiion.

The Tramway Company mot to-day to consider their position, the concern never having paid. Notice of uiotiuu to put the Company into liquidation was given, and it is probable a new company will be formed to carry on affairs The s.s. Kakanui arrived this afternoon from Dunedin, which port she left on Monday. Tho weather continues oxtremely bad, with extraordinary squalls and thunderstorms.