INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3605, 20 April 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) ■ Auok:i;»hi>, April 19. William Waters, of Papatqitoi, has had his out-buildings destroyed by fire, also a threshing machine. The insurances were £200, m tho New Zealand office. . ;. The Auckland railway returns for the year are highly satisfactory. The increase m cash . receipts is £14,000 ; increase m passengers 21,692; increase m ' live stock, 20,991. A' steady increase is shown m all branches of traffic. An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of tho New Zealand Smelting Company was held to-day. The directors intheir report declined to recommend that the. La Monte furnace be taken over, as during the trial run it had failed to obtain guaran- ' teed results. ■ . ■ . Nbw Plymouth, April 19. The dwelling-house of Mr Christensen, Omata, was burned down m the absence of ;.-"'■.' the owner and family. The insurance is £100 ',■ m the Union. ■ • ■ . . WBLMNaTOH, April 19. - .' The small arms ammunition which the Agent-General has sent out to the colony is for Martini-Henry rifles, and is, therefore, quite useless for the weapons now m use m the colony. The shipment has been sold to ■ tho Victorian Government at a price said to> be a slight advance on cost price. , '.? Tho Imperial Government have mad© a ■ present to the colony of the 1 (eight : . oonvertecl

64prs which were received, from Home some time ago. The balance sheet of the Wellington slip Co. recommends the payment of a dividend of 5 per cent. The body of a- man named Joseph. Young ■was found below high water mark this morning, young had been drinking heavily, .of late. .;..■• ■-. ;i ; .'.i > i Those who voted against the resolution for handing over the control of the Government Insurance Assurance Association^ to- tho Government vreire Sir "Julius , yogel (the Chairman), Mr Q\ S.,Graham. '(an elected member), and Mr ! €K T/ Shannon' (a nominated member). .*t" juV .'•'. .<.» '- M Owing to a severe cold, Sir Julius Yogel has postponed his address till next Saturday. The Coptic arrive.daildb'olook-last night from Port Ohklmeft: 1 .;. ' ••; '■ ;; "° u The writ i6t, the Syidennam Beat las been ißsne&,;r«turaable o'efQie-May 26th! 1 : "" ■ • ; ' •ObßreTbHTrßpHi'Ajfrillft! At the Diiorce; Court to-day Mr 1 Justice Johnston granted a decree absolute .ih the. case Moßracktiey v. Mcßrack'nely, 'arid "a : decree nisi in'Simp'son t. Siinjisdn I.'1 .' l J Colonel Whitmore, Xieut. lloder and three men from the Torpedo r ßchdoT at Wellington, arrived from that port 'ln 1 thfe 5.8.-Wanaka this morning-.' Thfejr -leave^'foi-'Oainaru tomorrow to take part m tbe encampment. • Etrktofar, April 19. The Premier has rejilied-ihat the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce resolutions re the New Hebrides will so. oablad/to ;staJl Secretary of State for the Colonies^ „ . „ . .