INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12906, 20 February 1906, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Pmt Astocutioa. CIUUBTCHUUCH, February 19. H.M..S. Challenger with Admiral Faw-kcn en board, sailed far Port Ci-staer* sM* evening. CHRISTCHURCH. February 33. The .special committee's; report. pre*>efit««3 to the City Council on she desirability «4 acquiring the proj»e;ty of the Chrirtctrarcii (Jas Company. w.i«e considered by the (Vubcil this evening. The rcr*'rl'-state*! that, in the opinion «f the committee a" *a,« desirable to .icq«hc the property. -i»d*s«*}»tfKt©d authority to enter in!« negotiation* wits the company far the p-Bui»3*-e mi the planton a Iwsis which wond yield the *hatvh<Aden* of the c«injwny .innaal retam J"»xe «f income tax t«ju.i! to the yearly dividend* received daring the past 'en year*. After n long discussion the report, tra* adapted by eight vote* to four vote*.

IXVERCARGILL. Ftbraary 19. A meeting convened by the Chamber njf Commerce was addressed* by Mr Melulyje, representative of tie Xew Zealand exhibition, and a. committee vr.v *et tap to further the proposal far a special SootMand exhibit.

There is no improvement in the weather. To-dny heavy rain and hail fell at intervals, and the temperature i* low far this season of the year. A hard «»1 gale i* Wowing (11 p'.m.J.