INTERPROVINCiAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1742, 17 January 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCiAL NEWS

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WaMQaHUI, January 16. A well-known atook-doaler, Joho Davidson, fell down dead this morning Id hta hotu* while being washed. Tbe deoeaaed had been ailiag ioma time. He i» Bupposed to have died from heart disease, from which he had been Buffering. Wellington, Janaeif 16 ▲ traok attaohed to the down train from the Wairarap* Vat blown off tbe raili thia afternoon at Pigeon Bash, about eight milei this tide of Faatheratone. The wind was blowing with erriiio foroe. Fortunately no damage was done.

A valuation of rateable property In the city for the year 1888-89 has just been completed The tout amounts to £290,834 as against £275,851 last year, bding an Increase of £14 943 ; the numbet of buildings In the oity is 6442. la reply to a oable message trona the Premier of New Zealand, the Premier of New South Wales states that the 300 MartintHaory riflas required for tha next meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association oaa be supplied from that colony at £3 5s each.

At a maeting of the Cabinet io-day it wasdaoided that In future officers ot the Civil Sarvioe would ba required t:> attend batwean 9 am. and 5 p.m. The Govern ment also deolded that owlog to (the waste of time of cffiiers m interviewing private friends, steps will be taken to prevent persons on private business Interviewing any officer daring business hours In what manner the publio are to be kept out of Government balldlngs has not been arranged, but a ciroular will probably be issued io heads of departments to the fcffeot mentioned l

Gebtmooth, January 16 The oatpat of coal during 1887 from the Westport Goal Company's Greymonth mines was 80.000 tons.

Ikvbroirghlj, JiDnary 16 A farther eeotion of the Seaward Bash railway, whioh has been constructed entirely by the unemployed class, wae opened today. The railway is now ex tended into the open country m the Otera mika district, whiob, although the earliest settled locality m Southland, and only twelve mile* from town, has hitherto been isolated. It is intended for the present to ran train* twine a week.