AUSTRALIAN CABLE.
Mklboubne, June 8. A' Bill authorising the construction sf tramwajß ia this city was under coniideration m the Assembly last night. ' On the motion for the second reading j ijreat opposition was shown to the Bill, , and the debate was at length adjourned, j The Select Committee of the Legis- < latire Assembly which was appointed at ' the request of the Minister for Rail- j (raja to enquire into the charges which . bare been preferred against him with i reference to certain lines, and the cir- 1 jumstanees uuder which Mr Wm. W. '■ Elsdon, late Engineer m Chief, resigned i bis appointmetit, haa concluded ita t jittingg. The report, which" wai laid ,
before the Assembly to-day, completely exonerates Mr Wm. Bent from all charges, Sydney, June 8. Sailed, this evening — Union Company's s.s. Arawata, for Auckland. The A.S.N. Company's eteamer Ranelagh, which went ashore at King's Reef near Cardwell early last month, is reported as having arrived at Cleveland Bay, on tbe Queensland Coast, and il now coaling.. The report on tbe New South "Wales railway lines shows that the profits for last year amounted to 5.33 per cent on the capital expended.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2407, 9 June 1882, Page 2
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