INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5207, 13 February 1892, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(by telegraph.) (per tress association.) WELLINGTON. February 13. Referring to Sir Harry Atkinson last ' night. Lord Onslow said that whether he | chose to continue in the dignified position he now occupied, or whether he would [ return to the battle of political life, there ' was no one amongst us who would not recognise that the services he had rendered to New Zealand in the field and in the forum would ever be amongst the brightest pages in her history. CHRISTCHURCH. February 13. The fire brigades demonstration is fixed for the 16th and 17th March. This is done because the previously decided dates clashed with the annual ram fair. A presentation is to be made to Mr James M'Lean for the share he took in the gallant rescue of Jane Blackmore : from a burning house on January 14th. TIMARU. February 13. The balance-sheet of the Atlas Milling Company shows a profit of L 4343, after writing off nearly LSOOO for depreciation. A dividend of 10 per cent, will be declared, and three-quarters as much will be carried to the reserve. The managing director reports a busy year, the mill running full time night and day, except a month for overhaul. Competition, he states, is increasing, and New South Wales is practically lost as a market. They were endeavoring to meet these adverse influences by writing down and seeking markets in other colonies. A drying nor-wester has set in. It will save much that would otherwise have been inevitably lost through the sprouting of the grain in the stacks. NELSON. February 13. Arrived—Barque Glenlora, from London, Captain Tonkin.