TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1972, 17 October 1888, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

(pbr raEBS ABeoor Arrow.) Electrical Tramways&T7GKLANP, Octobd 17. The Auckland Tramway Company have not been able to come to a definite dcci?! n •i to the proposals submitted by Mr Prlnoe, on behalf of the Boston Company. to substitute electricity for horse power on the tramways. Mr Prince left yesterday for Danedin, there being tome talk of the DanedJn Tramway Company using elec'riotty on their lines, bnt he is expeoted back In Auckland next month. The .Auckland Tramway Company, with a view to having all Information possible avail- 1 able, before eff otlng a revolution In their operations, have plaoed themselves m communication with the directors of the Bprajjue Eleotrioal Works, New York. The Auckland Woollen Company. Tbe liquidators of tbe Woollen Company have received two tenders for the purchase of the plant, stock, and business, but both hate been deolinsd as the sum offered was considered Insufficient. Private negotiations for the purchase are proceeding. The mill li kept running by the liquidators and li taming out more work thin ever before. A Flourishing Institution, Wellington, October 17. The Wellington Caledonian Sooiety ihowi » balance of £213. The question of renewing th«s scholarships, the term of whioh has jasfc expired, was adjourned. Tbe Sooiety Is to be incorporated Mr T. Kennedy Macdonald has been elected president. Art Exhibition. The Governor opens tbe Fine Art Ezhl bltlon this afternoon . Boy Drowned. A boy nsmed William Sayers fell out of * boat on tbe Hutt river yesterday afternoon, and wm drowned. The Opera House. The New Opera House is to be opened on December 17. 'Frisco Mar. The Waqnka with the southern portion of the Frisco Mail leaves for Lyttalton at two b'olook