WELLINGTON NEWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Wellington, last night.
During the last forty-eight hours the rain fail in the city has been almost continuous. It is still raining heavily. The Premier has been advised that the Waikato Land Council, now sitting at Huntly, has received an application from King Mahuta to deal with block of 10,000 acres near Raglan. A Gazette Extraordinary prorogues Par- I hament to May Tl. Major Lindsay, organising officer of the school cadet corps, reports that there are SOQO boys under arms as cadets in the colony, The Mapourika, with the Parliamentary party, left this morning for the Islands via Auckland.
A fireman from the steamer Whangape was fined L2O this morning, with an alternative of six months’ imprisonment, for bringing ashore from his vessel nine tins oi opium, which is prohibited from importation. He attempted to soil the opium, valued at over £3O, to a Chinaman,
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 867, 17 April 1903, Page 2
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