TELEGRAMS.
INTERPROVINCIAL. Wellington, May 23. The immigrant ship Wennington, 121 days out, whose long passage led to considerable anxiety, is now outside the Heads with all well on board. She signals being thort of food. Mr Findlay, late of the firm of Eindlay, Haworth, & Co., on the West Coast, has gone to the Manchester block at Colonel Fielding's settlement, to, establish a saw-mill and lay ■ down a tram war to connect with the Foxton . tramway. . . ', . " New PiiTmouth, May 25. In the Provincial Council, the Education bill has been passed, fixing a rate of £1 tax - upon houaholders. A steam tug is to be subsidized for the Waitara • Msjor Atkinson, in making his financial statement, said that the General Government had handed over to the proviace 110,003 acres of land, which it was proposed to open by means of a loan. An emigration agent is to be sent to England. The claims of ; the militia scrip-holders are to be liquidated. The revenue for 1874, including the amount ' : to be , spent by the' r General Government at Patea, is £21.316, Snd the estimated expenditure JE23,00_.; are, to' be spent on ibads and public works, £12u0 on education, and £5000 in cacrryihg btf Government immigration. The agent ia to cost £ I 000 a year.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 123, 25 May 1874, Page 2
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211TELEGRAMS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 123, 25 May 1874, Page 2
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