INTERPROVINCIAL

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 463, 20 July 1899, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Last Night. The council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce intends to urge the Government to establish the penny post in the colony and a regular fortnightly mail service with England. Information has been received that the Hon. Mr McKenzie, Minister for Lands, under medical advice, has undergone an operation, which was successfully performed. By a tire at Taihape, Cohen's billiardroom. White and Co.'s drapery, and a large store used as a ballroom were destroyed. The Wellington Tailoresses' Union has resolved in future not to take any part in politics, and declines to assist in selecting the Parliamentary candidates. A proposal to recede from the Trades' Council is also being considered. The English blood stallion Cyrenian—by St. Simon out of Daisy Chain—wis brought from England by the Rakaia, consigned to Mr J. B. Williamson, the well-known Auckland trainer. Stratford, Last Night. A woman, named Mary Ann Porter, aged 67, was killed on the East Road on Monday evening by the overturning of a dray in which she <vas coming to Stratford. The driver stopped the team to give them water, but they started off and ran off the road into a swamp. The woman was carried to the Toko Hotel, but died before the doctor arrived. The buildings destroyed by the late fire are being re-built at once.