NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 January 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

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Imperial Troops come to New Zealand. Wellington, This Day. The Agent-General has cabled as follows : “ The Colonial office informs me that the War Office has recommended the Admiralty to arrange for an extension of the visit of the Imperial troops from Australia to New Zealand.” Surgeon to the Sixth. Dr O’Neill, assistant surgeon of the Dunedin Hospital has been appointed assistant surgeon to the Sixth Contingent. Ho was educated at Otago University. The Recent Auckland Fire. Auckland, This Day. Further inquiry regarding the fire in Customs street shows that the fire was discovered very soon after the actual outbreak. There was no sign of fire at ten minutes to four, when a cabiran drove past the building, but a few minutes later the nightwaichman with two constables noticed a smell of fire. This they traced to the bond and Bell’s, buildings, through the ground floor of which a faint gleam was now showing. Tho delay which ensued at the telephones, caused by the failure of tho Central Exchange to respond, is now being inquired into.

Emigration and Immigration. Wellington, This Day. The returns of the Begistriir-General’s ofliec show (hat 2.75 S persons arrived in the colony and 1,57(5 left, as against 2.2(H) and 1,23(5 respectively in December of LSfJ'J. Midland Lands. Arrangements are being made by tho Government to bring into the market lands of the Midland authorised area—six million acres in all. These will ho open for .selection after the Ist of February, and in the meantime the Commissioners of Crown Lands for Nelson and Westland arc hearing applications from persons already in occupation under temporary license or under any arrangement with tho Midland Company, on whose cases reports will be made to the Minister of Lands. Tho Tndmor block of (5,000 acres will be placed on (he market about the middle of March, and the survey is being made of a block at Wataroa, south of Boss, and several other Mocks. New Zealand Census. The census of New Zealand will ho taken for (he night of Sunday, March 31st. The Registrar-General is now making arrangements.