INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5205, 11 February 1892, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(by teleckath.) (per press association.) WELLINGTON. February 11. The Minister for Public Works this morning met representatives of the City Council and Harbor Board in reference to the extension oE the railway to Te Aro. Mutters were arranged satisfactorily. The Minister has given instructions for the t lowest tender to be accepted, and the | irorfc will be proceeded with without delay. The following are the promotions in the Customs Department:—E. Chilman, landing waiter at Wellington to be collector at Hokitika ; A. W. Prain, landing waiter at Wellington, has been shifted to Dunedin, where he will act in the same capacity ; E. It. 0. Bowen, landing surveyor at Dunedin, to be collector at Napier; R. Carter, examining officer at Napier, is to be landing surveyor at Dunedin ; A. M'Dowel), landing waiter at Christchurch, is to be collector at- Greymouth ; A. Eliott, landing waiter at Nelson, Is to be collector at Wanganui. It is understood that only Batger and Hempton will be sent to England to represent New Zealand in athletic events. The lowest tender for the Te Aro railway extension is that of Messrs Cronin i and M'Grath. the amount being L 5553.

DUNEDIN February 11. At the wool sales, crossbreds fetched to 9|d and merinos 7|d —a general decline of id to Id. CHRISTCHURCH. February 10. The Governor and Lady Onslow, with the Hon. J. G. Ward, arrived from the south, by special train, at 5.30 p.m. today. The Governor was entertained at dinner to-uight by the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, of which he is honorary colonel. A luncheon and public farewell demonstration take place to-morrow, and the Governor will leave for the north in the evening. NAPIER, February 10. Mrs de Lisle, wife of Dr de Lisle, had an apoplectic seizure to-day, and died without recovering consciousness. After considerable correspondence with the proprietors of the Wolseley, Burgon, and Ball, and the Australian compressed air shearing machines, the committee appointed to arrange a trial on a large scale in some Hawke's Bay woolshed has now abandoned the project. Mr Wolseley was anxious to compete, but no definite promises could be got from others. The Hawke's Bay County Council has pissed a resolution in favor of a harbor rate being raised by a proportionate levy on local bodies in the same way as funds for charitable aid are raised, to save trouble and expense. One contractor under the County Council threw up his contract, forfeiting his deposit, and another had to ask for an extension of time, owing to the difficulty in obtaining labor.