THE FIRST DIRECT MAIL STEAMER.
WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. The Ministerial Circular of Dec. 1, prohibiting Civil servants attending meetings of Trading Companies in which they may I be shareholders, has been withdrawn, other regulations being proposed. Dec. 21. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kaikoura, with the first Engl : sh : mail under the new contract, left the har- j bour for London at five o'clock this after- i noon. j An open boat, occupied by two men and ; two boys, capsized in the harbour yester- { day afternoon. The occupants were rescued by a passing boat. . !
DUNEDIN, Df.c. 20. [ Isabella Stewart, who was burned at the I ! Lower Harbour on Thursday evening, died j | early this morning. ! \ Dec. 21. I " At Eden Creet, in Mnniototo County, on * Friday night, a rabbitter named James t
Galloway fell from his horse, and has since died in Naseby Hospital. He was well connected, but addicted to drinking. He was a single man. Rain set in yesterday morning, and continued till this afternoon. It now shows signs of clearing up.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5190, 22 December 1884, Page 3
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