INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1128, 28 November 1873, Page 4

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

CANTEIUiUKY. Good Templarisui appears to bo making headway in Christehurch under ihe supervision of a gentleman of the name of Exall, who has been long known in the journalistic world in the rapacity of reporter, and who is dubbed as G.U.K.W.G.T., whatever title these initials may represent. Fotnale lodges have been instituted, and an amusing cartoon has lately appeared, in which Mr Exall is "initiating a Sunbeam," the sunbeam fat, fair, and forty, and the process of osculation — evidently an important item in tbe ceremony—about to be commenced. Miss Eaunie Carandiui had a narrow escape from being burned to death at Christehurch a few evenings since. The Press Ntates that while she " was playing the accompaniment to one of the songs, the train of her dress was by some means swept into the gas of the foot-lights, and was in a blaze in an instant. A gentleman sitting in tne front seats, on the alarm being given, with great presence of mind, sprang on the stage and extinguished the flames, Miss Fanuie fortunately sustaining no injury beyond a fright." OTAGO. The Dunediu compositors and pressmen l>ave formed a society designated the Otago Typographical Association. The following board of management bas been elected for the ensuing six months : —President, Mr David Sta'rk; Vice-President, Mr J. O'Connor; Treasurer, Mr A. Kisk ; Secretary, Mr W. A. VV. Wathen ; Trustees, Messrs J. Pearce, A. Galloway, and H- Peareon, and seven members of the Association. Messrs Aris and Cuttle were elected Auditors. The Association is to be registered under the " Friendly Societies Act." Forty-three members were enrolled at the first meeting. The best emigration agent tbe Otago province has seems to be Mrs 0. Howard nee Alpenny. She has an office in London, and from the Munster News, it appears she is working energetically to endeavour to obtain female emigrants. Mrs Htiward bas an advertisement in the same paper announcing where and when she may be found, that she will answer all enquiries free of charge, and making known the fact that free passages will be given to all respectable single females. Altogether she seems to be going about her business in a business-like way, and this, coupled with the novelty of her being the only female emigrant agent in Britain will ■ensure her success.