INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 13 May 1901, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 11. Thomas Prosser, aged 73, was knocked off a tricycle yesterday by a horse and trap, and fell heavily against the kerbstone. He had two ribs and his right arm broken, received cuts on the left temple, eye, and nose, and sustained slight concussion of the brain. He is in «t semiconscious state, and fatal' results are feared.

WELLINGTON, May 11.

The Chief Justice delivered judgment in the case Commissioner of Taxes v. A.M.P. Society, in a special case to settle the question whether life assurance companies are entitled like the ordinary taxpayer to dedutat as outgoing in their income returns 5 per cent, on land used solely for the purposes.of business. His Honour held on ttie construction of the statute that a life assurance company could not claim the same deduction, as an ordinary taxpayer, but must pay on the gross income.

The Cuba street traders who are agitating for an extended route of the Royal procession, had an interview with the Governor this morning, as a result of which His Excellency acknowledged that his objections' to the proposal had undergone modification, and he undertook to give a definite answer after consulting Ministers and the Reception Committee. Mr Ward/ wires that he is leaving Melbourne next Thursday, and will arrive in New Zealand on the 22nd.

DUNEDIN, May 12. The Mormon elders who were preaching in the Octagon last night) were assailed by the crowd, and had to seek* the protection of the police station.