INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4539, 15 May 1889, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

« (By. TKLKOBArn.) AUCKLAND, May It. Mr Harris Clark, secretary to the South British Insurance Company, was presented by the officers of the company with a marble time-piece prior to his departure to assume the management of the Otago and Southland branch. At about 7 o'clock to-night the steamer Australia, bound from Auckland for the East Coast and Wellington, collided in Raugitoto Channel with the tug Awhena and tho barque Kssex, which were lashed together coming into port. The cause of the accident is not known. The Australia received a slight dent on her after port quarter, and her deck planks were slightly stuted and ono of her boats damaged. XU» bowsprit of the Essex was carried away. The Awbena received tho most serious damage, and it is thought that her stem is twisted out of place und some planks started. The Australia, which had a number of pasjenjeri on board, returned to port, whilst the Essex sailed to an anchorage in the harbour. The Awhena has been beached at Rangitoto. WANGANUI, Mat li. Tho Borough Council to-night resolred to meet a committee of the Gas Company, and hear their proposals a? to future reductions in the price of gas, but without prejudice to the council's scheme for corporation gas works. Au accident happened to-day to Mr W. Russell, a settler, of Goat Valley. He was thrown out of ft cart and so seriously injured that his recovery is doubtful. Major Kemp is very ill from inlhmmation of the lungs, and fears are entertained of his not recovering. A man named Johne was sent to prison today for two months for begging alms. MASTEKTON, May 14. Te Mosterton Lodge, E.C., passed a resolution in favour of tho formation of a Grand Lodge. NEW, PLYMOUTH, May 14. On the hearing of a petition in the District Court for the adjudication as a bankrupt of Joseph Simmon?, lato of Opunake, who was arrested in Wellington on Friday on a charge of being an absconding debtor, a solicitor gave his written undertaking to pay in full the accounts of those petitioners with all costs incurred, and the petition has since been withdrawn. WELLINGTON, Mat 14. The AUmcda with English maila of 20th inst., left San Francisco for Auckland on the sth inst., one day late. The Mariposa with colonial mails of the 22nd and 21th ult. arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on tbe 12th inst. In order to prevent confuaion in mercantile correspondence, tbe postal authorities have issued instructions that peraons who have sent original letters by the lonic, on giving intimation by Thursday morning to the Wellington post-office, can have them transferred to the Rimutakn. The Bhaw Savill and Albion Company have entrusted to Messrs Cable and Company, of the Lion Foundry, Wellington, the work of repairing the steamer lonic, which returned to Lyttelton yesterday with her crank shaft broken. A gang of men will leave here tomorrow by the Takapuna., and it i» expected that the necessary repairs will be effected in four or five days. Tbo H^-if Zealand Pacific Lodge, No. 617, E.G., psieed a resolution in favour of the the graad lodge movement. The Masterton lodge h»re also adapted a resolution recommending it. EEEFTON, Mat It. A, W. (toll, a miaiog expert from London, who has be«;n) inspecting the Eeefton mines in the interests of English capitalists, has completed hii »ork here, and proceeds on Thursday to Lyell to inspect the mine* there. He expresses no opioion whatever locally. CHRI3TCHUSCff, Mat li. The lonic's mails leave for Wellington per Rotorua to-day. The passeneers and cargo were transhipped to the Coptio, which loaves on Friday for Kio. A meeting of the creditors of Donnolly, of the Palace Sink, was held to-day. In Donnolly's statement the unsecured creditors were put down at £2046 6s fid j secured creditors, £4505. The value of the security was stated a» £4505. The assets were furniture to tbe extent allowed by ths Act, and chairs to the value of £40 in the rink. The Bank of Austra'ssia was seeured not by the bankrupt but by Mr lienjumin, who bad driven a guarantee to the bank, taking as security the building erected in Christchureh asthePalaeoßink. The equity of redemption of this had been mortgaged to the Mercantile Finance Company for JE6OO, and had twen traniferrcd to them on condition of their release of the security of property included in leaseholds in Cliristchiircb, Dunedin, and Nelson, on whujh skating rinks were orected. Tho bankrupt stated that a partnership existed between one I'iper and himself, and that thero exiited to him a liability of £800, for which he had b«en threatened with a writ. Messrs Benjamin and Jacobs had become guarantee for the odvanco of certain money by the Bank of Australasia. He had also given a mortgage ov«r tha Christchureh and Dunedin rink» to Mr Benjamin, to secure certain promissory notes. The mortgagee had taken possession of tbe rinks. The statement Uid on tha trble showed tbe amount received during tho fifteen months immediately preceding tUe SSling to have been £7936 13s Od. This included profit on tho Christchureh fink, £968 I3s lOi » Dunedin rink, £820 ; Nelson rink, £230j pro/It on skates, £103 83 Id. This had been diifcufjed. Tho amount paid in connection with tho Chriotchurch rink was £5089 lie 4d. In his statement the bankrupt amounted for his losses by the cost of tho Chriitehurch rink, which was as stated above, a*d was only taken into account at £.'i2oo, and other matters which made a total dellcieney of £2000 after taking into account, the profit* on rinks and skates, and the amount put in by tho bankrupt himself. When he came here, he had £1000. 'Ihe meeting adjourned to tMovi the books to bo examined. DUNEDIN, May U. At a. iargo meeting of officers and volunteers to consider the correspondence in rcferenco to holding a shooting contest during tho period tho Exhibition is open, it w*a unanimously decided that tlio mcMns should bo uurf.r the .-ontrol of the Now Zealand BIHO AbboojuUoo, with the co-operation of a local committee, nil present being appointed a committee for the purpose. Three «lieers were given for Captain tHmorville, chairman of the New Zealand Bifla Association. The Payne family of ia«wisn«, from Ballarnl, Victoria, opuood hero U>-m K U to a pocksri house, many being unuble to gun , admittance. They ware accorded an unthusiasttc reception, and the tnuan promises to be remarkably successful. Th«y will work, their w>iy UMrtliwurd*.