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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5017, 27 May 1889, Page 3

The English mail per Euapehu will arrive here by special train at 10 o’clock to-night. The “ special ” will go right through to Dunedin;

We are compelled to bold over a contributed account of the football match last Friday— Timaru v. Sydenham. A letter signed “ Equity,' 1 dealing with the weekly half holiday, is also crowded out to-day. Mr R. £f. Postlethwaito, who 'supplied Mr D. Owens’ electric light, is devoting much of his time to pushing electric plants. He fitted up Hayhurat and Brown’s mill at Temuka, about throe months ago, and has now in hand an installation for transmitting 15 horse power from a dynamo on the Temuka river to an electric motor at the Temuka flax mill, about a mile away. The wires are ready and the turbine which is to furnish the power, and the dynamo and motor are on the way from Homo.

To-night the readers of our Story take leave of Algernon Warriner, lying in a hurried soldier’s grave in a rugged defile of Afghanistan ; of his tender hearted wife ; of the peppery old gentleman, the ex-mayor, and his hearty friend tho fine old English gentleman, Joe Bolitho, and tho rest of the dramatis persona of our little story “ The Mayor’s Daughter.” To-morrow we publish the introduction to a 'new "and interesting tale, “ The Dark Street Mystery,” by a deservedly popular author. . In another column will bo found a notice of reduced prices of Hudson’s cocoa’s and chocolate. On thirty-two 'pianos se’zed by the Victorian Government and paid for at an advance of 10 per cant, on invoiced prices the State has made £BBO 18s. A Mrs Trueman, residing at Newton, Wellington, reported to the police that her house was entered the other evening by a man, who pointed a pistol at her, and forced her to givo up all the money in the place. Tho police regard the story as belonging to the same category as the Hutt affair and others, which have recently been so frequent as to become amusing. The Auckland Gas Company,in the Bill they propose to introduce next session to obtain power to supply electric light, fix the standard price of gas at 7s 6d per 1000, without rebate or discount. They will a’so supply meters free of charge. In asking for power to erect posts for electric wires, the bill distinctly disclaims any desire on the part of the company to have a monopoly of this concession. May 24th, tho Queen’s Birthday, is also the anniversary (this year tho 35th) of the first meeting of the free Parliament granted to New Zealand by the Constitution Act of 1852. Iho Act was proclaimed in 1853, and under it tho Parliament met in Auckland for the first time in 1854. At that time there wore only 30,000 whites in New Zealand, about as many horned cattle, and ten times as many sheep. The public revenue was £290,000, of which £IBO,OOO caite from land.