INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6439, 25 December 1895, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

' (by tousosafh.) (feb i bess association.) WELLINGTON. December 24. The Industrial Association have determined to hold an exhibition similar to that at Christchurch next year, opening I on October 18th and closing on December 31. Mr Forster will be appointed manager for the Realisation Board. It is understood that the aggregate salaries will be less than the total allowed by the Act— L 15.000. Already a number of town properties in Wellington are announced to be sold by auction next month. The general meeing of the National Bank of New Zealand has received cable advice that an interim dividend has been declared for the half year at the rate of, 5 per cent per annum. Last session a sum was placed on the estimates for fog signa's, and the Government decided to send to England for one of .Slaughter's patent automatic cotton powder fog signals. The appliances are to be fixed at Pencarrow, Wellington; Heads, and if the tests are satisfactory others will be procured for the leading lighthouses. The co3t is from L3OO to L 350 each. The weather promises well for the holidays. The excursion steamers leaving to-night for the north and south were crowded with passengers. The Grafton took the Star and Wellington Clubs' crews, which are to compete at the Nelson regatta on Boxing Day. There was also a large exodus by the" country trains during the day. The streets were thronged to-night, and business seems brisker than has been the case for some years past. DUNEDIN. December 24. James Donald was found dead in a bedroom at the Crown Hotel to day, it is supposed from heart disease. The streets were crowded to-night, unusually large numbers having come in from the country while the number which left town by the trains is smaller than usual. The chief attractions for Boxing Day are the military tournament, in which many outside volunteers are engaged, and the regatta, which is exciting unusual interest, owing to scullers from Wellington and Lyttelton meeting M'Grath the champion, while the Tiroaru crew are engaged in the junior fours The steamer Wakatipu left this evening with about 150 excursionists for Stewart Island. The amatcut athletic clubs representatives leave for Christchurch by to-morrow's express train. TIMAKU. December 24. Mr Napier Bell's report to the Harbor Board on the shingle question agrees with Mr Maxwell's tha"t most of it will drift past the harbor, and the dredge can deal with the balance. Many people believe that the engineers are quite in error, and that the harbor will be blocked.