SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 9

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—rress Association.) REPAYING A LOAN". TFMARU. this day. The Harbour Board, which has to renew or pay oil' its £l(X>.00ll loan (I„n----jdoni of ISS.'i, is arranging to raise it locally at 5 per cent., lor K; vears, without expense. The Board would hivehau |lo pay 5 per cent in London, and about j £3,000 for raising the loan. About half I the total amount has already been book I ed. I FIRE AT HASTINGS. HASTINGS. Friday. A fire occurred this afternoon in a liveroomed cottage in Avenue Load, occupied, by Herbert Pillion, and owned by .lolin Cowan, jun. The interior of the building was gutted. The insurances arc: On Ihe house. £4o(l in the Commercial Union 0:ce: on the furniture. £10(1 in the Norwich Union. TRAYELLERS AM) WAREHOUSEMEN. DUNI-irnN, Friday. A' a largely-attended special general meeting of me: tbcr.- ~f the New Zealand Commercial Travel], rs ami Warehousemen's Association held here to-night it was unanimously decided to join the New Zealand Federated Association. This step is ma.inly the outcome of a re-solu-tion which vims adopted at the conference of the Australasian Federation. IteM in Dunedin at Easter last, recommending suc-h a course. TAXI-CAB FATALITY. ClfrilSTUllUßCll. Friday. At 110 inquest on Ada I'.r.odlcy. who died in the Im.uiilnl from injuries incurred in a collision with a iaxic.".b, the girl's mother stated thill, deceased was cycling in the middle of (he tramlines, and wil::,--, was nn the wrong side nf the road. There was a lamp .m cad, bicycle. Wit„es-. beard n toxi-cah coining behind, and goi oil tier hirvele at a lamp post t., allow the t;i\i to go p.,-t. The taxi cab was coming on the 1 ramlines, and seemed to b» going f.iirlv fastWitness heard a crash as if the taxi-cab had run into something, and whet: -he went acres she found her dui'ffhtcr iving em the ground. After medical evidence ha.,) Wn given the inquest was adjourned until Tur.-day. ROMAN CATHOLIC ATUTIP.ISIIOP. WELLINGTON, this day. August 17 has been fixed ac the date ■of the consecration of Deiu O'Shca as coadjutor arch.bisiiop. Th • consecrating prelate will be Archbishop Itedwood, who I wil: be assisted by I'ishops Cordon and j Clo.-.ry. The sermon will be preach".! by I Father Ily.in, of Melbourne..