INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 28 August 1889, Page 3

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS

(by telegraph.)

DUNEDIN. Aogust 26. The Yoong Women's Chriatian Aesociatlon are about starting a coffee shelter for cabmen, cirtera, tramway employees, etc., •where tea acd coffee will be supplied at a reasonable price. Tbc cimpatition between the Tramway Co. and Young's Palace cars, which were brought down here after the proprietor was bought out in Wellington, has now commenced lo earnest. Young was running his cars In penny sections, but the Tramway Co. from to-morrosr wiil run theic cars for the full distance for a penny. Information has been received that the Victorian and South Australian Railway Commissioners have mide arranacmenta to run Dunediu Exhibition excarsion trains from Adelaide to Melbourne to connect with the TJ.S.S. Co.'a steamers at a return fare of L2 first chs3, and 25i second. The distance each way is over 500 miles. August 21. Thcmaa Wardlaw, saddler, Tapauul, died of apoplexy af'er a severe drinking bout. He was unmarried, and 53 yearß of age.

AUCKLAND. August 27. Thomas Neal died suddenly at Parneli this morning. He was 65 years "f age. A building owned by Patrick Qainn, at Mercury Bay, has been destroyed by fire. A Maori boy named Naho Abraham, who was sleeping in it was burned to death. Another boy named Mitu Abraham is In a precarious condition.

TIMARU. Anso3t 27. Edwin Henry Longb, Tuwa Clerk, on Saturday completed 21 years of service in that capacity, and at the Cjancil meeting to-night the Mayor (Mr Rjss) mentioned the fact, adding a warm eulogy of their chief executive officer. He »lao stated that during this Ion? term cf cffica Mr Lough had never had a holiday, and auggested that it was about time they save him one. In replying, the Town Clerk said the town had grown in hi 3 time from 250 to over 800 houses, and the revenue from LSOO to £.6000.

EN'YERCARGILL. August 26. Messrs Hall and Lewis, the Tin Mining Co.'a Directors, have accepted an offer for the total number of shares offered (2000) at par, and consequently siy they will not be floated. Matthew Cross, a half-caste, at the Bluff, was committed for trial to-day for the theft of about 50 yards of Japanese silk from a hotel in town whero he pnt np for a night. Tho most peculiar feature of the case was that Mrs Ciaughlan, the owner of the stolen property, said she had had It 21 years, a statement which was corroborated by an expert, who aaid the pattern was fashionable abont a quarter of a century ago.