INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 218, 25 August 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) BURNING IN EFFIGY. ENGLISH MAIL. Dunedin, August 25. It is proposed to burn in effigy those Otago members who voted against the Stout Ministry. Quite a fillip to business was given by the baby show. Every fond mother made strong endeavours to dress her baby in a manner equal to the occasion ; and the investments in new capes, hoods, and robes, to say nothing of shoes and slippers, must have been very numerous. There was no less than 140 babies entered for show. Auckland, August 25. The City of Sydney, from San Francisco, which left on August 2, after an uneventful passage, arrived at Auckland at 1.30 p.m. yesterday. Passengers for Auckland : Messrs. Dean, England, Weech, Towgood, Kingham, Boodle, Thompson, Bedford, Peake, Storms, Caneer, Gracie, Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Towgood, and thirteen steerage. For Sydney there are twenty-four cabin and twenty-five steerage. Among the through passengers are Sir Henry Parkes and the Rev. J. W. Wakefield.

One of the battery owners at the Thames is about to introduce the electric light for the battery and his private residence. He has purchased a dynamo machine to be driven by a water wheel.

Good work is being done by the workmen employed in the repairing of the steamship Triumph. Nearly all the plates needed to be taken off the fore part of the vessel have been unri vetted, and Mr. Fraser hopes to have the stem and keel pieces in position by the end of the week. A considerable amount of lost time has been caused owing to the particularly unfavorable weather that has been prevailing ever since the docking of the vessel. It is expected that Mr. Fraser will receive additions to his number of workmen by a batch from Dunedin, but whilst Mr. Fraser is looking abroad for labour he is in all cases prepared to give preference to local men.

The Union Steamship Company have secured new offices in Palmerston Buildings, which were occupied on Friday for the first time. Christchurch, August 25. Alexander Lowe, a passenger by the Rotomahana to Dunedin, from Auckland, where he has been staying for the benefit of his health, died of consumption while the steamer was at the wharf. Port Chalmers, August 25. Arrived, the barque Nairnshire, Captain Lawrie, from London; ship Nelson, Captain Bannatyne, from London. Sailed, the Tongariro, for Lyttelton. Oamaru, August 25. The steamer Eldcrslie arrived from New-castle-on-Tyne to-day. She made the passage in fifty-four days. She brings no passengers, and there was no sickness among the officers or crew.