TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 270, 8 May 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. The new Hospital building will be constructed of brick and cement, it will contain 112 beds. This number will entitle it to become a recognised hospital, having the number of beds required by the Examining Board of the United Kingdom, which will enable young men to prosecute their studies for the medical profession in New Zealand instead of having to go to England. The Hospital will be situated a little beyond the Lunatic Asylum.

The Superintendent opened the Provincial Council on the Ist of May. The financial year had opened with a balance to the provincial account of £16,197. The ordinary income last year, estimated at £31,800, realised, £30,873. The territorial receipts £81,455, being £6455 over the estimate, exclusive of £9672 represented by scrip received for land. The special income fell short of expectations by £9354. The total receipts for the year were £118,901, as against the estimate of £122,726. The Education Board would have £lB,OOO at its disposal during the year. The population of the province on the 31st March, 1875 was 37,203, being an increase of 25 per cent during the last thirteen months, Altogether, he calculated there would be £172,383 to appropriate for the ensuing year. TIMA HU. It is rumoured that the General Government is about to purchase the Washdyke Meat Preserving Works for a penal establishment for long-sentence prisoners. PATEA. The hitherto unexplored country, north-east of Mount Egrnont, has just been penetrated fo a distance of about forty miles by a party of surveyors, who report the land to be of excellent quality, and level. In the Wairoa district, the yield of grain averaged fifty bushels an acre, notwithstanding that fully twenty bushels were destroyed by caterpillars. AUCKLAND. The Provincial analyst has reported that eight samples of milk were adulterated with water.