A trial "was made in Dunedin on Thursday of the extension of the Roslyn tramway, which is the first tramway in the colony in which electricity is the motive power. The installation has been made under the direc tion of Mr Goodman, the engineer for Noyes Bros., of Melbourne and Sydney. Mr Good man personally worked the car, which ran very smoothly—starting and stopping easily, and mounting a grade of one in twelve. , The speed may be varied as desired. On one , oc casion the car was going at the rate of twenty miles an hour. The official open ing will take place shortly.
Late on Wednesday night Constable Bar ratt, of Annat, on returning 'home from Courtenay, found waiting him a telegram which stated that a man named H. Jones had picked up on the road a swagger, who had been taken ill wiilie tramping across from the West Coast, and had brought him down to Springfield The telegram asked the constable to come at once. The man gave his name as Peter Heading, and said that wihiie tramping across the ranges he contracted a severe cold, which grew steadlily worse, owing to the exposure, and his having to sleep out at night. He finally had to lie down by the roadside, where -tie was found as above. At the hotel, strong measures were taken to combat tthe cold, and Heading was, at iiis own request, re moved to the Christchurch Hospital.
