WELLINGTON ITEMS.
[PEtt TRESS ASSOCIATION. | Wellington, November 17. Five of the Chinamen arrested yesday have preferred a counter charge of threatening to murder against those at whose instance they were apprehended. T he authorities do not consider the Singleton plague scare necessitates taking any addition precautions in regard co the inspection of vessels from Australian ports. The first application for exemption from vaccination under the new Public Health Act, was granted by the Stipendiary Magistrate to-day. Such applications must be made within four months of the Act coming into force or from the birth of the child, Trawling experiments are to be resumed by the Government in January, when particular attention is to be given to the North Island coast. The Stoke Orphanage cases will be taken at the Supreme Oourt on Mon-1 day, and it is expected they will last the whole week. The railway passenger traffic returns for the four weeks, ended 10th inst., under the reduced iariff, shows an increase of 83,000 ordinary tickets with an increased revenue of £9OO, and an increase of season tickets of 1600, from which there is an added revenue of , £6OO.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 226, 19 November 1900, Page 2
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190WELLINGTON ITEMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 226, 19 November 1900, Page 2
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