TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 84, 21 June 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

«- (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, 7 p.m. It is currently rumored today that the Government's proposals in the matter of aiding Railway Companies will go as far as granting Crown lands to the extent of one-fourth of the total cost of the line, with certain fi^ed conditions as to settlement. Mr Levin, M.H.R., has interviewed the Government re Wellington unemployed, and obtained a promise that relief measures should be promptly initiated. It is probable a gßng of men will be sent to Patea as was dona last year. WJiite, the Mercury Bay oarsman, who is to* row Hearn for £200 and the championship of the Colony, arrived today, bringing two boats with him. He is a half»caste, and built his boats himself. The new Hospital is to be opened tonight with a grand ball. The Jane Doug'as sa ; ls this evening for Foxton.

The Surface of the moon, at the lunar noon, ia above the temperature of boiling water. "Mamma, can't we have anything we want?" — " Yes, my dears, if you don't want anything yoa can't have." He wouldn't marry her because she had false teeth. Bat, when his wife kept him awake nights with the toothache and neuralgia, he wished he had. Kindness, flavored with love, is the true principle for association. The farmer who sent his son to the city to, beoome a clerk, now writes and asks the merchant if there is anything in the boy. "Yes," replied the merchant, "just after he has been to a saloon."

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