INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1846, 21 May 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

+ , — [per pbbss association 7 I J Wellington, May 90. The rivalry between the city trarn3 and , Oobb and Co 's busses ia. becoming so great as to be a source of danger to the .public between five and six m the evening, when 1 the traffic is very great. The object of ; the drivers ia evidently to throw obstruction [ tion m the way of the rival vehicles by j roaortiog to the blocking proce.B9. The t proprietors of both services have asked for extra police supervision to keep the ■ streets opsn. The cable repairing steamer Sherrard Osborno left for Cook's Strait yesterday, and during the afternoon succeeded m getting hold of the Wellington end of the broken cable, which was buoyed, and then ' the steamer returned to VVorser'B Bay for ; the night rhe left ngain this morning to , grapple for (he other end. The weather i remains favorable for the operations Gbeyscouth, May 20. St Patrick's new Roman Catholic Cathedral was formally opened to-day by Bishop (irimep. There waa a numerous attendance. The collection amounted to over £400 A young man named James Filzsimmonß, while bush falling at Kaiata on Saturday, was accidentally knocked down by a tree, and fell across the blade of his axp, receiving a frightful gash m the upper and back part of the thigh Oamartt, May 20. A man named Inwis Johnston was killed by the upsetting of a dray on ,' Saturday. He was ridinsr on the top of a stack of timber, when the horass turnel down a bank and upset the dray, the driver of the dray had his elbow dislocated and his arm broken.