WELLINGTON NOTES Wellington, Sept. 13. THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 299, 15 September 1888, Page 5

WELLINGTON NOTES Wellington, Sept. 13. THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE.

[m i.ThUATi- u> has been it> opposition to the han Francisco \iai i Set vice, the 1 Post ' e\ pi esses the opinion that it there i-> a contribution by the Australian colonies and America towards whatever subsidy may be requited, it does not suppose that i'ai - hainent would refuse to gnc the .small pinportion which would bo tan iy payable bj this colony. The colony would not object to pay a fan ptice i'oi wbate\ei benefit.-- it leceiveo, although it i& absolutely determined not to continue foolishly paying almost the whole cost ot cai lying- on a beivice which i.s of moie benefit to othei countries than to New Zealand

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFJCE. Nearly all the plant ot the (!o\ eminent Printing OiHce has now been trans t erred to the new building. For the tut me, the misineNS of the Department wilJ be wholly carried on there.

xMJi V ALL ALOE'S DEATH. By Mr J C Valiance'h death the colony lo»es one ot its most enthusiastic and thoroughly straight - going &porti?men. During his lesidence in Kahumin&i, Wairarapa, he collected round him one of the best private studs m the North Island. Curiously enough, he rarely sold 01 raced the horses he bred, but pioferred to allow others, for merely nominal considerations, to race them and make what they could out ot them, the satisfaction of seeing them successful being all that he desired.