Southland
The consecration of the Roman Catholic Church was to take place on Srn»<iay, the -oo.j. amc--mass selected for performance by the choir was Mozart’s No. 1 in G. The Superintendent, recognising the imperative necessity for the establishment of a Fire Brigade in Invercargill, has promised to support the placing of a sum of money on the estimates for that purpose. The various Insurance Companies are prepared to subscribe liberally, and it may be anticipated that the Fire Brigade will soon be in full force.
There is every probability that Southland will be well represented in the forthcoming New Zealand Exhibition, to be held in Otago in 1806. The local committee, which for some time past has been inactive, seems at length to have started into life, and preparations are being made for securing a quantity of industrial and natural products for transmission to tlie Exhibition. A local exhibition of the articles contributed will bo held in Invercargill, previous to their transmission to Otago. The electric telegraph posts from Dunedin are now complete to the office in Invercargill, and the wire is stretched to within a short distance of town, so that in a short time telegraphic communication will be complete from Bluff harbor to the capital of Otago. Messrs. Dougins, Ahlerson and Co., have
paid into the Waste Lands Office the sum Of L 29,059 in cash for land purchased by them in the Waitnumu and Aparima Districts in the province of Southland. Evan H. Lewis was. brought up' at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, on the 27th ultimo, charged with embezzling the sum of L 663 17s, the property of the Union Bank .of Australia, and committed to take his trial at the. next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. John Gibson Skinner was also placed at the bar. charged with embezzling the sum of L 300," the. property of the Bank of New Zealand, and remanded for further examination till the 3rd November. A boy was killed on the 2.j th ult. by the wheel of a locomotive going over him.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 455, 23 November 1864, Page 4
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343Southland Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 455, 23 November 1864, Page 4
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