LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 6344, 18 June 1889, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(By TELKaRAPii-PitKss Association.)

WELLINGTON ELEOTRIO LIGHTING,

Wellinston, kit night. Further delay is likely to be oaused before the oity is lit up with elcctrioity. When the oontraotors applied for a ten inch pipe from the main water supply the Counoil refused to grant more than a&h inch pipe, A trial of the light was made a few days ago, and it wos found that tho turbine was unable to. drive the dynamo so as to give a brilliant light throughout the city, although thero was no difficulty in effectively illuminating the portions within which the experiments had baen previously made. The Counoil have now decided to allow a 12-inch pipe to be laid down, but it is expected that another fortnight will havo elapsed before the oity 13 lighted, COXSWAINLESS BOATS. Christchorch, Sunday. " At a meoting of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association, convened last evoning on the requisition of the Canterbury, Union, and Avon Rowing Clubs, of Christchurch, thirteen associated cluba were represented. Mr, R, J. S. Barman, president of the Canterbury Club, presided. The main object of the meeting was to oonsider a motion by Mr J. O. Jones, the Canterbury Club chlegate, to amend rule 11 so as to exolude boats in the Champion Fours, The motion was, after considerable discussion, lost; there being 13 votes for and 10 against it, and the rules providing that an amendment of any rule shall be carried by a majority in the proportion of three to two. "