NEW ZEALAND
(PRKSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) WELLINGTON, September 11. At a meeting of ihe City Council to-night a letter was received from the tramway proprietors, offering to sell to tho Corporation for the sum of £50,000. No action was taken. A manned woman named Lizzie Lennard, residing with her husband at the National boarding house, had words with her husband this evening, and rushing upstairs, seized a razor and attempted suicide by cutting her throat. A nasty wound was indicted, and on the arrival of a doctor was stitched up. It is not expected to prove fatal.
DUNEDIN, September 11. The report of the Roslyn Tramway Company states that, including £541 brought forward, the credit balance is £1328. The Directors recommend the payment of a di\-idend of 7£ per cent., absorbing £747, leaving £580 to be carried forward. The revenue for the year shows a slight increase. A boy named Ingram, eight years of age, was sent on Wednesday for groceries, but never returned, aud no trace of him can be discovered.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9520, 12 September 1896, Page 8
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