The Invercargill And Suburban Tramway Company has a single line of tramway, which extends nearly three miles, from the Post Office to Waikiwi. A half-hour service is maintained each way, and two cars are regularly in commission. On special occasions as many as four cars are run, and twenty-one horses are employed. The stables are at Gladstone, where the company has forty-four acres of land and ample paddock accommodation. The stables, which are of wood and iron, contain fourteen stalls and two loose boxes.

Mr. Thomas Hastie , Manager of the Invercargill and Suburban Tramway Company, was born in Edinburgh, in February, 1846, and arrived at Port Chalmers in 1858 by the ship “Jura.” Mr. Hastie attended a night school, and started work in one of the Dunedin stables. For some years afterwards he worked under his father, Mr. Alexander Hastie, as a carrier. Subsequently, with his brother, he took over his father's business, which was worked by the firm of T. and A. Hastie, for about twenty-two years. After selling out his interest in this business, Mr. Hastie made a tour of Australia. On his return to Dunedin he took the contract to work the city trans, for which he provided his own horses, and carried on the service for nearly four years. At the end of that time he sold his horses, and made two trips to Calcutta with New Zealand horses. Mr. Hastie was afterwards manager of the horse cars at Roslyn, Dunedin, for about five years. In August, 1903, he took up his present duties in Invercargill. While in Dunedin, Mr. Hastie was for seven years a member of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. He joined the Pioneer Lodge of Oddfellows in Dunedin, in 1864, and passed all the chairs, including those of the Grand Lodge. He was married, on the 6th of February, 1873, to a daughter of the late Mr. John Allen, and has two daughters.

The New Zealand Express Company, Limited , Don Street, Invercargill; Head Office, Dunedin. The Invercargill branch of the New Zealand Express Company has its offices on the ground floor of Messrs Butter-worth's building in Don Street; the store is a large brick building, at the corner of Nith Street. About eight teams are employed in the delivery and collection of goods, and the stabling is at the back of the office in Don Street.

Empire Hotel Stables (Frank H. King, proprietor), Tay and Esk Streets, Invercargill. These stables, which are situated at the back of the Empire Hotel, have entrances from both Tay and Esk Streets. The buildings are of wood and iron, and have accommodation for thirty horses, in addition to plenty of covered standing room for traps. Mr. King was born in 1880, at Temuka, where he attended the District High School, and was brought up to an outdoor life, in which he had experience in driving and breaking horses, in farm work, and page 859 also as a carpenter. He had a carrier's business at Timaru, for two years, before removing to Invercargill in 1899; and he became proprietor of the Empire Hotel stables in 1903. He has three complete turn-outs at the stables, and fourteen horses. Mr. King is a member of the Pioneer Lodge of Oddfellows.