WELLINGTON SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 269, 22 November 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON SPECIAL.

THE MAN WHO BAN AWAY

(Special to Times.) Wellington, last night. The queer little story telegraphed to the Times yesterday concerning a bridegroom who was missed at the eleventh hour, lias ended very tamely. The police have ascertained that tho young mini, Sinclair by name, left Wellington for Sydney by the last boat, having evidently lost his nerve. He left a message stating that for certain reasons he had not tho moral courage to tell either his prospective bride oilier parents, the reason for his defection. It was rough on tho girl, but then there are more good fish in the sea.

DOCK SCHEME.

The Wellington Harbor Board is in no hurry to embark upon tho scheme for tho construction of a dock, estimated by its engineering expert to cost altogether something like a quarter of a million. The experience of other Boards has been rather saddening, and the Wellington Board, which lias now a steady and certain revenue, the profits of which it devotes wholly to the improvement of its wharf accommodation and reduction of charges, has no dosiro to encourage history to repeat itself. At the Board meeting to-day the Dock Connnitteo recommended that before further action is taken Parliament be approached and asked to proclaim as a permanent endowment for dock purposes a block of four acres in the city, acquired some time back from the Corporation, on which nearly forty thousand pounds has been spent, but which must be sold within a period of nine years. If tho Board obtains this block as an ondownmont, it would bo content to credit the money already expended upon it to a dock account, and devote future income from it to dock purposes. CONSUMPTION.

Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer, has sent to the Government the first portion of his report regarding the proposal to establish sanatoria for treatment of consumption in tho colony. He is to visit the South Island in the course of a fow days, and will collect data for tho remainder of his report on this important subject.