TELE GRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 73, 13 May 1881, Page 3

TELE GRAPHIC NE WS.

(FttOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT?.) Wellington, Thursday, 7 p.m. The Post tonight states that the expenditure on. Public Works last .year" was' very ' nearly ' £2,000,000, leaving a balance to the Public Works 1 frund of £ i ,860,000. Liabilities of' about half a million are covered by ; the balance of the Imperial guaranteed debentures not yet.insured. The arhbuht theiefore available for expenditure is nearly a million and a half. The Premier is expected to address his constituents at Leeston towards the end of this month. The exact date ig not fixed. The Post undertsands. there. is no foundation for the rumour that the Hon. E. Oliver is about to resign. He returned from the South this afternoon. '■' A tornado Gi^ymputh early this morning, doing great damage It first blew down a large pile'driver, . then wrecked most of the houses on the west side of Mackay-street, smashed up a new two- storey Chinese store, and blew an. end out of the Great; 'V\fest > era Hotel. : pnejhalf of; the English Chtuth ik utterly smashed up, the other part is . twisted round on tne pile's. v ' ' A gale blew with great violence In Wellington aboat midnight. Mr J. C. Richmond .is..^candidate for the seatibr Nelson..piiy, rendered vaoftti^bjr'Mi,' tion; Tli^re'is h'b't' likely to be any seiious opposition .sq}U Bichmond.