TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IX, Issue 2844, 6 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. February 5. The Harbor Board to-day decided not to light the wharves with electricity, as too costly. At the Thorndon Licensing Committee to-day, reference was made to Sunday trading. The Chairman of Committee said he quite believed -that a difficulty was experienced in convicting publicans of Sunday trading, owing to the number of loopholes of escape which existed. Inspector Goodall remarked that the present Licensing Act was not nearly so good as the one previously in force, his experience being that it was about a hundred times more difficult to secure a conviction now than under the old Act. The Gear Company have just preserved between 20 and 30 cases of fish for Mr Nicholas Fernandez, fishmonger, who intends to send them to India and Home as an experiment, and to endeavor to open up a market for fish. The delegates of the various art societies of New Zealand met this afternoon to examine designs for certificates and medals to be awarded to prize winners at the New Zealand. Industrial Exhibition, 1885. Mr Samuel Best, of Filleul-street, Dunedin, gained the prize for a design for a certificate of moiii, and Mr Peter Ellis, of Sydenham, Canterbury, for a design for a medal.

l -DTJNEDIN. k March 5. The lad William Fraser, who was in- '. jured on the Oaversham tramway on Tuesday, died at the Hospital this after-, noon. Oable advice wa3 received in town today from Glasgow, announcing the death of Mr James Galbraith o» the 4th inst. The deaeased gentleman was senior partner in the well-known shipping firm of P. Henderson and Oo.j of Glasgow. He was afterwards managing Director of the Albion Company, and on its amalgamation with Shaw, Savill and 00. became one of the Board of Directors. The extension of Mornington wire cable tramway to Maryhill is now completed. The line is half a mile long, and over a portion of it the car descends the steepest grade in the world. • In future all the Union Company's brats, including' the intercolonial traders, will come right up to Dunedin to discharge and load. The Mayor has, at the request of a number of citizens, telegraphed to the Premier requesting him and Sir Julius Vogel to address a public meeting in Dunedin at an early date. CHRISTCHUROH. March 5. Very heavy rain fell last night, the downpour being so great at one time as to rouse people from their sleep, and excite fears of a waterspout. This morning the rain ceased, but the weather is still dull and threatening. At the annual meeting of the Southern Gross Petroleum Company, W. D. Meares, G. Hart, and R. Walton were elected Directors. The report showed L 28,000 capital called up ; liabilities, L 1263 ; value of property, L 9408 ; expenditure during 1884, L 12,597. The pipes for the new bore have left Christchurch. The bore will be commenced next week.

The Lyttelton Licensing Committee have decided to extend the hour of closing from 10 to 11, the latter hour being generally adopted in and around Christchurch. March G. The weather has cleared, it is now brilliantly fine. AUCKLAND. March 6. Nine tenders were received for the erection of the art gallery and library. That of Price and Malcolm for L 19,505 was accepted The City Council has decided to recommend the closing of the present cemeteries after January Ist next, as they are now in the centre of the city and a-dense population surrounds them. The Auckland and Thames shooting representatives left per To Anau to-day.