Interprovincial News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 177, 21 November 1896, Page 4

Interprovincial News.

At a conference of A;is kku.d fruitgrowers the following motion was carried That unless a sp-cific is found it is premature f-r th • »hsvemment to put the Orchard Pests Bid into operation with the exception of that part dealing with the phylloxera." A copy of the resolution wiil he sent to the Minister for Agriculture. The artilleryman who is in temporary charge of the Little Barrier Isiand bird reserve as caretaker had a perilous experience. Accompanied by his wife and child be was returning in a boat to the islam! from Omaha, where he had been to procure stores. | A sipiall carried away his luast a short | distance from tin; island. Bad weather prevented him from landing, and he was blown away to the Great .Barrier, eventually landing on that island, over a dozen miles away. About 40 men engaged on the construction of the outfall of theseiver in connection with the Wellington drainage works struck for an advance of from 7s to S.s per day. The contractors decline to concede the demand. A heavy nor'-west gale was blowing yesterday at- Wellington, and when the Wairarnpa train was taking the incline of the Rimntaka at a spot known as Siberia, where a train was blown over the precipice some years ago, the guard's van became derailed. It did not capsize, having the weight of the train in front and two incline vans behind, but there was a couple ol hours' delay. The Bight lie vs. I )rs. Lenihan and Grimes returned to Auckland yesterday from the North by the Clansman, accompanied by 1-! clergymen from various part-; of the. colony and representatives from the laity. Mr John Gell. of the Telegraph Department, who is an associate of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, has forwarded to the Mayor of Wellington an interesting communication in connection with electric tramways. Mr Gell a couple of years ago visited Europe and America, and says that he U'ave a good deal of attention to ih.' r-übject of electric traction. He di dare* that the present system of tramwavs in Wellington is obsolete and the corporation should not purchase it at any price. The trolly system of electrical traction he considers most, suitable for Wellington, and to replace the pre-ent tramway lie estimate; the cost to hi: L - f •">.<>ol), and for an extension to the suburbs the total ; cost would be about I'loo.ooo. lie estimates that a. one penny and a. half-penny passenger rate would give an annual profit of lie suggests that arrangements should be made with suburbs such as Knrori and Brooklyn to run a tram to them on the concession of a portion of their increased rates. This inerea-e in the first place would be largely due to the tram so that the proportion would be great at lirst and then taper oil' to nothing.