INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13644, 11 July 1908, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per' Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, July 10. -The' Auckland- and ' Suburban Carters'. Association' decided 1 -to- co-operate, with other carters hi petitioning Parliament lor a uniform'wheel ta-x. • • • , - ■■ r ■■ • WAjnGANUI, July- 10. • Hutriok and Go. .--are -having a, further , vessel built for the ganiii • River service, to: enable, a. dajly service to be ■ rjin next summer on , con-" ne'ction with the establishment of ...uittgh trains between Auckland and,- Wellington. The new addition, to the fleet • will be reidy ' : in .November. . It is . anticipated that there will be large in the passenger.; river trainc on. the completion. of the centralrailway. v .. . .< CHRISTCHURCH, July IQ. . Ernest Perry, of Sydenham, is claiming £3OO 'fronv Borsley and Co. on account of injury alleged to have been sustained, while employed at .Fariiley brickworks, Perry's foot • having beeiv caught in s the rollers used for crushing . clay, Jus toes and a . portion of the foob having to. be amputated; It, is understood that Messrs WJiybrow and' Co., a. Victorian boon manufacturing firm, have purchased, a large area of land afc the southern end of thel city, and in--tend erecting thereon an. extensive. boot factory. It is stated that the firm will brpg its own operatives over, from --.ugtralia. ! The Standard Oil Company's business in New Zealand is -to be transferred from the Colonial Oil Company to another company which, will form parti of. the .Standard Oil organisation system. Previously the business was through local independent agents acting as distributors, bub now the company will have its own branches in each-, centre. The supply of oil, etc., will nob be affected, a.nd the prices will as heretofore be reguiaied according to instructions from headquarters. DUNEDIN, July 10. Andrew Thomson, ex-Mayor 1 arid exc ki »irman of the Port Chalmers Dock Trust, died to-day. 1 / • ■ -vFrancis Porter, a Caversliam hotelkeeper, was finei £lO and costs; for supplying liquor to an intoxicated person; Patrick Lynch,' ivhb was subsequently found dead in m. "ditch. • ' INVERCARGILL, July- 10. Tl«r valnation' of Southland County is ■as- -fallows : —Capital- value," £5,812,Ji0; i unimproved'value, •£3;d3l-,302;- an-increase I over tiß>- previous year of " 1 former, and- £192,470- mv-tlie flatter.. ■ I