NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10139, 12 September 1898, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND.

(FKESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, September 10. The official trip of the Kita, trawler, showed 9i knots. She leaves for Napier on Tuesday. September 11. Cole, on remand .on a charge of the theft of £286, was brought from Sydney by the Mararoa. WELLINGTON, September 10. The engineers of the railway department, by order of the Minister, are engaged in preparing a scheme for the duplication of the line from Dunedin to MosgieL They state that it is possible to very much improve the line and quadruple it* carrying capacity. The City Council has decided to ask the Commissioner of Police to enforce the bylaw forbidding the overcrowding of trams and to prosecute where necessary. Amongst the passengers by the Duke of Devonshire to-day is Mr J .Moore, who comes out by arrangement with the Bishop of Wellington to conduct mission among the seamen of this port. DUNEDIN, September 10.

The Otago footballers met) with an enthusiastic reception, and were welcomed by Mr Gallaway, president of the lecal Union. Mr Robert Chapman, the first registrar of the Supreme Court, died to-day. INVERCARGILL, September 10.

Nearly twenty thousand fat sheep have been railed from this district to Canterbury during the last fortnight. Of the 10,000 acres comprised in the Otahu estate, 8000 have now been taken up, and it is expected that the balance will soon be settled on.