POLITICAL NEWS.
— -"r— (BY TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, Monday. ; Captain Russell's motion to reduce the Estimates by £500,000 hag been carried, Messrs Macarthur and Newinan alone of the "Wellington members voted agairist it. All the railway votes m excess of existing' liabilities were struck off. A fight was ni.irTo for the Gorge Railway, but the majority were too strong and was lost on a division by 58 to 29. Canterbury, knowing that the East and West Coast vote could not pass, voted to reduce everybody else, and with the assistance of the Opposition carried every, thing.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1455, 15 September 1885, Page 4
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