INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4844, 15 May 1890, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Bl TEIiEQEAPH). WELLINGTON, Mai 14. Mr Fergus leaves at the end of tho week to address his constituents at Queenntown. The 8.M.8. Tainui from Lyttelton armed at Plymouth on Sunday all well, and her frozen meat m good condition. Owing to the heaTy sea the steamer Scotia waß unable to pick up the Cook Strait coble and hns gone oo to Fort Underwood where the will remain until (lio weather moderates. At the annuol meeliDg of the Colonial Insurance Company this afternoon, there was a large ottendanco of shareholders, and everything passed off satisfactorily. The balance sheet and the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent was adopted. Meairs Jacob Joseph and J. B. Harcourt woro ro-olected directors. NEW PLYMOUTH, May I*. At the Harbour Board meeting to-day, correspondence with tbo debonture-holdors of the loan was read. It appears that a fall statement of tho board's position was sent Home, and all the money available for interest, which was equal to 8i por cent on tho amount due, OHBIBICHUHOH, Mat 14. A mysterious loss of 415 from a flock of 1070 sheep is reported by K. Mclntosh of Soathbank. They are supposed to have been stolen. Henry (Jrovoi, a railway shunter, waa run over by a truck and killed at 2.55 p.m. today while shunting at Addington station. No one saw the accident. Grovea was a uinglo man, aged 40, very steady, and had been employed 10 years on tho railway. Yesterday a boat belonging to a fisherman named Walkor upset m tho surf at Now Brighton. Thomas Frost, who wae riding nfong the beach, swam his horse into the sea and with difficulty saved Walker, who was almost exhausted. NELSON, Mat 14. Inquests were held to-day concerning two fires which occurred at Waimca West on the 6th and 7th April. The first case wob that of an unoccupied six-roomed house owned by Christian Schwauss, who was at Wellington atlhotime. 'I he house was insured m the National for £100. A verdict was returned that there was no evidence to show tbo origin of tho fire. The second cate was that of a six-roomed houso owned by Henry Suhwauss, irho at the time wns absent at Talatoa with his family. Tho house was insured m the Colonial office for £100, tho atablo for £75, and furniture for £30. All wore destroyed. A verdict that tho house was set fire to by some person unknown was giveu. The newly formed trotting club hold a meeting on the Queen's Birthday. Good nominations havo been received. DUNEDIN, Mat 14. Thomai Salter died suddenly at his residence, Anderson Bay road to-day. In December ho arrived from Sydney with his family. He was m indifferent health, having been m a lunatic asylum before coming hore. He had been ordered th»t no spirits should bo given to him, but daring his wife's absence m town Suiter procured somo rum and on her return sho found him dead. At the inquest on Thomas Salter a verdict was returned of ' death from prematuro decay due to chronic alcoholism and insanity. At tho annual mooting of thd Trustees Kxeoutora and Agency Company tin's afternoon the chairman (Mr J. M. Ritchie) stated that the business of tho , company was gradually growing and the profits were larger by £200 than for the provious year. The not profits were £1038 Ss Id, out of which the payment of a dividend of 6 per cent, was recommended, the balance of £432 Si Id being carried forward to tho reservs fund. Ihe expenditure m outdoor relief of the trustees of the benevolent institution for the past year shows a reduction of £700 on the previous year. At a meeting of the hospital trustees a loiter was read from Mrs Batohelor asking if tho trustees wore prepared to accept the sum of £1870 which had boen rahed towards the erection of a ward for the treatment of special diseases of women, upon the distinct understanding that the money bo devoted to the purpose for which it was raised. A motion that the monoy be accepted subject to tbo conditions stated was lost m favour of an amendment to tho effect that consideration be doforrod till tho proposed ourte*' home is orcctod and tho trustees bob what is theu necessary. INVEKGARGIIiI', May 14. Ihe »,«. Nairushire which i« tl"> largest

vessel that has jut entered Bluff Hurbour, takes away 9650 carcases of mutton., besides wool, grain, and other produce. The Southland Frozen Meat Company, who recently increated tho size of their refrigerating works at the port, will proceed shortly to further extend them.