DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4399, 8 February 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Yesterday. • The Union Company's s.s. Tarawera sailed to day on a ten days' pleasure .trip t^Jhe, West Coast Sounds. There were so/tnany applicants!for passages that next year tbe company will arrange, for two trips. Amongst the passengers by tbe Tarawera are, besides persons from all parts of the Colony, some Home and Victorian tourists. The .former include Lord J. G. Lennox and IVlr Watney, M.P. ; the latter, Sir A. Michic and Professor Strong. The allotment of shares in the Dunedin aud Suburban Tramway Company has taken to the number of 98.220, out of j 100,000 offered to the public A strong ' local directory has been formi'd. The City Council are taking steps to give his Excellency the Governor a suitable reception. , It is proposed to open the Mornington wire tramway line for traffic on the 22nd inst. This i 3 the second of these lines here, Ihe other running to Koslyn. Both Mornington and Roslyn are suburbs at I the top of steep hills, and an endless wirs worked by steam engines drawing the cars. The Roslyn is a single one, and travels at 5-| miles an hour, but the Mornington one is double, and will travel at 7 miles an hour. Both suburbs are about a mile distant from the centre of the city. Tho Hon. Mr Whitaker arrived tonight. This day. The Public Works Department has accepted a fender for the construction of the Otago Central Railway, but the name of the successful tenderer is withheld for the present.