INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5170, 17 June 1891, Page 2

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(BX TeLBGIIAPh) s AUCKLAND, Jvss 16. 'f Mark HaEsan, an old resident, was found dying m the Btreefc at 4 am. He was taken into Ihe Fire Brigade Btation, and died before a doctor arrived. Ha was a ain^la man, and • had no relatives m the colony. He was 3 Jow, and a bootmaker by trade. \ The sa. Talnne is towing the Pukokihi down from Hussoll to-day. At a meeting of tho Sailors' Home the report showed the average numbor of inmates to be 24. Owing to tha advance m the price of butchers' meat and provisions, (ho charge for board and lodging did not oovor housO' d hold expenses by £180, whioh had fallen on the general endowment. The Publio Service Association passed a h rejolution, disapproving of the resolution i, passed by the Wellington branch that clause j a 6be put m the Public Service Bill, providing for tho eervice being placed under tho control a of a non-political board. a The city schools eomoiittoo determined, ia j regard to quarter money, to recommend the 5 Board of Education to supply fr?e certain °- artielea of stationery to Echolarß, and that the y parents pay for the balance. WELLINGTON, Jtthb 18. A special meeting of the City Council to> day decided that tlio Cily solicitor's opinion be obtained as to the advisability of taking legal proceedings against the Publio Cemetery \ Trusteei for illegally burying dead m lands diecharged from tho reservation of the Cemetery Act, 1882. A public meeting was held lnist night, which was largely attended, to consider fcbe formation of a Boys' Instituto. A largo committee was appointed to collect subscriptions and m arrange details. .About £400 has already been collected, aud it ia eelimatedTthat £800 will suffice. ;o 'A'he charges against Coleenu Phillips for ■y breaches of the Land Act will be heard m Ihe j Supremo Court to-morrow before o 'epecial j" r yXho lonic arrived at. London from Wellington on tho 14! h inefc. 8 > OHRIBTOHUROH, June 16. jj At the adjourned meeting of the City Licensing Committee all applications held 11 over were granted. The chairman made 3- severe remarks with regard to Bundoy [c trading, and intimated that the committee in* tented to adopt stringent measures to stop )r it,and advieed publicans to accept the caution, ,f DUHSDIN, Jtjkb 16. it Tha misGiog lad Grieve has turned up. e j INVKROAIt&ILL, June 16. Professor Huiton reports that the second 'y lot of fish taken from tho Aparima are salmon w without a doubt. At the inquest into a stack fivo which occurred at Waimunu on tho 19th May, the evidence showed that fchs grain was insured for £150 m tho Now Zealand Office but it was only worth J£t2. An accountant of the New Zealand Loan Company, to whom the oats were mortgaged, stated that 18 tho proof of claim put m was £136, and this wiped off the Pennys' liabilities to them, and left him £19 and 90 bags of j sound oats to tho good. Tho coroner said that no doubt the Pennjs vrero better ofjeince the insurance was paid, but ho did not think there was evidence to warrant the juty m finding that they — the father and son — i. wilfully eet fire to the grain. He recommended tho jury to make boiiio remark on tho careless way m which the insurance rißks were tnken m this case. Thoro was not the Biightest inspection of the a crop?, and ha thought something should bo done to proyont such indiscriminate insurance. The jury found that the stacks were wilfully ) eel on fire by some person or persons unknown, and strongly condemned tho frequency with which insurance companies accept riek3 and pay !os€O3 without sufficient investigation. Thoy aleo expresicd the opinion that aomo ovidenco ohould have been called from the office which accepted the liak. On Wainiira flats Mr Grieve has threshed n 114 isusbels of oats per acre, and Mr Ronald 112 bushela this season. In tho latter case the paddock when croppod ten years ego n yielded 108 bushels tho first year, and 100 bushels the second.