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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 40, 12 January 1883, Page 2

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[NTERPROVINCIAL. j (united press association.) j Donedin, Jan. 11. Ttie gold escorted to this city last light was the heaviest consignment mown for some years ; it consisted of jleven boxes. All arrangements connected with the brmatiou of the New Zealand Electric Fiij^hb Company are completed. The iirectory have purchased the exclusive right to use m $Jew Zealand the patents of the Australasian Electric Light Company represented by Sir J. Yogel. The Company is now prepared to make contracts, &c. It is not intended to offer shares to the public until the Company is somewhat established. Nelson, Jan. 11. The Nelson drapers have resolved to cloae their establishments every Tuurs« day afternoon for a half-holiday. The College Governors announce that the Nelson Girls' College will be opened on the 2nd of February, under Miss Kate Edgar, M. A. principal 5 MiBS L. Edgar, M.A. ; and Miss 8. H. Milne, assistants, with Miss E. Bruce Bellady matron, and masters and mis* tresses for special subjects. The Volunteers are being sworn m under the new regulations, but many cf those who were formerly most enthuthiastic, appear to be holding back, fearing the stringency of the new regulations. Auckland, Jan. 11. Messrs Bloomfield and Wylie, ol Gisborne, have purchased the racehorse Piscatorius for 325 guineas . James Kay has been committed for trial for burglary at the Waiiato and Royal Mail Hotels. Fisher and Co. have erected the first refrigerator m use m the col6ny ia connection with the trade: It is a BellColeman patent, capable of supplying 1000 cubic feet of cold air per hour, Ihey have also a canning plant for turning out 60001bs of pressed meat pei diem. 1 Napier, Jan. 11. j The Government, having received assurances that the subscribers to the hospital desired to continue their share of the maintenance and administration of the institution, telegraphed yesterday that under those circumstances the old pound-for-pouud system would be continued. The election for subscribers' representatives on the Hospital Committee accordingly proceeded on the old basis, resulting m the mayor and treasurer and another candidate being at the bottom of the poll. I\ew Plymouth, Jan. 11. The Premier arrived here from A.uck» hnd by the mail steamer. With Major Atkinson he will go to Hawera on Friday to consecrate the Hawera Masonic Temple. Sir William and Lady Fox are also passengers for here by the steamer from Auckland. Oamaru, Jan. 11. A trial of reapers and binders took place to-day, and out of three competitors the machine manufactured by Rnd and Gray took the first prize, the voting being — Reid and Gray, 46 ; Howard's Simplex, 14 ; Samuelson's, 12. Although all the returns are not yet to hand, Jthe polling for the £50,000 Harbour Board loan is sure to be m favour of the proposal by a substantial majority, DuuEDitf, Jan. 11. A fresh candidate "is announced for the Peninsula,| m the [person of Mr John Wells. Great interest has been evoked m it by Bishop Moran coming out At a meeting of the Chamber ot Commerce to-day a motion was carried urging the Harbour Board to push forward the works for deepening the the bar without delay, the mover (Captain. Scott) deprecating the idea of waiting till Sir John Coode's opinion on the new engineer's plans could be received, as the Harbour Board 'pro* posed.