INTERPROVINCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 43, 15 November 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, This Day The election of Mayor takes place on the 22nd inst. The present Mayor, Mr George Fisher, offers himself for reelection, and as yet there is nobody mentioned to oppose him. A supplementary gazette issued to-day, fixes the revised scale of freights on New Zealand railways to come into force on the 11th proximo. Passengers' fares do not appear as yet to b • altered. CnßisTcnußOH, This Day. A correspondent writing to a morning paper makes grave charges against the Railway Department. Amongst other things he hints that the engines on the Blueskin section are unsuitable for the work, and that thf real reason of the recent accident has been carefully concealed. He also alleges that engines have been ordered from Home which are useless. Dunedin, This Day. Daniel Stevenson, mannger for Royse, St^-ad, and Co., died on Saturday from exhaustion, caused by a shock to the system, the result of the Waitara railway accident. Ho was in one of the hinder carriages which did not leave the line. The Chamber of Commerce to-day agreed to a deputation to the Hon Mr Johnston to ask him to push on the Otago Central Railway. It is stated that Sir Julius Vogel will arrive at the Bluff about the 20th inst. Auckland, This Day. Intelligence was received by the mail of the death of the ReY. Moses Elkin, in London, for 17 years Jewish Rabbi at Auckland. At a meeting for the purpose of establishing a deep sea fishing and curing company a committee was appointed to collect data for submission at a future meeting.