INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13459, 4 December 1907, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

I'Br Press Association. GREY MOUTH, December 3. At the Harbour Board meeting 10-uay, the tender of Simons and Co., Ltd., Rcnficav, Scotland, was accepted for n .stemwell dredge to be used in connection with the lagoon doelc« construction. The dredger is to be delivered in Greymouth in twelve moid lis. It was decided to call applications for an engineer to go home and supervise the work, members holding that homo supervision was not always sat Meases arc very prevalent in town and district, and the school attendance huR fallen off considerably. DUNEDIN, December 3. At a meeting of the Shipwrecked Relief Society to-day it was decided to vote £2 per man to the crew of the wrecked! barque Dundonald with £1 additional to each officer, this donation' to supersede the emergency offer of £25 previously madei Ex-pupils of the Union School to-night entertained Mr 'Alex. Stewart who recently redired after 44 years' continuous ser- . vice as headmaster and presented him with a cheque for over £160.' INVERCARGILL, December 3. For the summer show on Tuesday and Wednesday the number of entries far exceeds that of any former years. The Premier and Ministers of Lands and Labour have accepted invitations to be present.. The Chamber of Commerce Committee to-dav referred to the correspondence -with the Victorian Government, re the need of having a light on. the'..Shares, and it-was decided to again bring;the matter under the notice of the Commonwealth Government. Alexander Farrier, charged at Oropuki with manslaughter by culpably killingAlice Ooleby, wafc committed for trial, bail being allowed. Farrier Waft the driver of a traction engine which .frightened the horse deceased was driving and' a. fatal accident ensued. The Magisterial inquiry into the loss of the Dundonald will' start at the Bluff? to-morrow.