TELEGRAMS.
(From Exchanges) WELLINGTON. The local papers are warmly discussing the question of the erection of a Town Hall costing £lO,OOO. Letters from Wanganui report that exMajor Finuimore has joined the Turkish army. The Post expects to bear of him soon dwelling in a marble palace on the banks of the Bosphorous, the blessed possessor of a harem of lovely Circassians. Governor Musgrave of Tasmania has been transferred to Jamaica.; Governor Cairns, to B‘outh Australia ; Mr Kennedy of Hong Kong, to Adelaide; Mr Pope Hennessy of Barbadoes, to Queensland. AUCKLAND. The Waste Lands Board, , at their .first meeting, considered Mr Broomhall’s application for 47,000 acres at the Upper Thames for a special settlement, and declined to grant it until it had been ascertained whether it would absorb all the land available for miners. Mr Pritchard’s application for 62,000 acres of confiscated land was deferred because no price was mentioned. Mr Pritchard guarantees to introduce 1200 immigrants to be settled on the block.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 435, 9 December 1876, Page 2
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162TELEGRAMS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 435, 9 December 1876, Page 2
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