DUNEDIN, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1892, 21 August 1884, Page 3

DUNEDIN, Tuesday.

The Tonga.-iro arrived to day, after a passage of 44 clays, including the stoppage at Teneriffe, Cape of Good Hope, and Hobart. The actual steaming time was 42 days 41 minutes. She brings 190 passengers of all classes. One death occurred, that of Mis Mellwraith, aged 76, of brouchitis. She has 15,281 packages of cargo for Dunedin, and 21,676 packages for Lyttelton. At Cromwell a fire broke out at halfpast one o'clock this morning on the pre niises. occupied by Chailes Colelotigh as an aunt's office ami d welling of Mis Col dough, v. lio was the only inmate, and had just time to escape. When the alarm was given the place was in flames, and before the file uas extinguished the building and fuinihue, which weie insured for £500 in the New Zealand Office, -were destroyed. Wednesday. The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held to day. The clmrman, Mr G. 8011, dehusred a lengthy address, Mr B. 15. Cargill was elected chairman for the ensuing year. On the motion of Mr Bathg.ite, a committee was appointed to report ,is to the expediency of a State bank of issue anil a3 to the better regulation of banking in the colony. A motion was also carried approving of the pioposal now before the Harbour Board to ask for increased borrowing powers. Messrs Oliver and Larnnch were appointed delegates to the Wellington Conference. Mr John McMillan, of North Taieri, has died from tetanus, which supervened upon a wound in Ins right eye. He was driving a horse out of a paddock in the dark and lan against a post splinter, which penetiated his eye.