INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1727, 29 December 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Wklijngion, December 23. The specification for the permanent lighting of the city by eleatrtalty are now complete, and oopiea will be forwarded by the outgoing Sbd Francisco mail to New York, London, and Paris, where tenders for the work will be invited. The yacht Dream is to competa at Lyttaiton rega'ta on Now Year'a Day. She ia to b 8 taken down by the Penguin to-morrow. Mr T. Oaborne will Ball her m the regatta. Invbroargill/, December 23. The Blutt H»rbor Board is reooganißtng its staff, have again employed all the former members with the exception of the Harbormaster, Captain Dyson, who did not apply, and another, Me GUlroy, who waa Pilot of the port m the early days and has lately been signalman. He now retires and Pilot McDonald takes hia plaor , The new men provisionally selected bat not yet confirmed are : — Norman McD nald, first officer of the G.S.S. Stella, aa Harbormaster .• # and W. JcT. Paterson, second offi.oor of' the Union Steamship Company's Pakakl, as Chief Pilot. The Board abandoned the proviso that certain oflioera should not be over forty years, and also the etipuUtioa that applicants should be holders of certain certificates. Had the Board kept to ''their original resold-, tions an advertised, nearly all former servants wou'd heve been ineligible, Chkistohurch, December 28. At an extraordinary gereral meeting of tho New Zealand Shipping Company to-day, new regulations were adopted, Ihe principal alterations are the transfer to London oi the head office, tho registered office still remaining at Christen uroh; 2 Boards of Directory 1 at London »nd 1 ut Cbristchurch. The Londop, Board is to have' supreme financial qontrol, and the management and administration of the comtnurciai affairs of the Company, except m New Zealand, - s uatralia, Tasmania, aud the Islands of the Pacific. The New Zealand Board ia to have tho management of the commercial affairs of the Company m O'ew Zoaland, etc. The New Zealand Board to be represented on the London Board by a director nominated by the Board m New Zealand, and the London Board is to have a similar nomination on the New Zealand Board, Dunedin, December 29. Charles Wilkiuß. who is already under ooinmUtal fur trial, for embezzlement, was farther charged t^day with that offence and laroeny. He was santeiicad to six month's imprisonment on two charges of embezzlement, to be cumnlatire, and the other chare o was ditmlieed, A man named John Reason fell orir > cliff at Shag Point on Sunday, He died, [a the hoipHel tQ-d»y from, iDjaplee, |<