NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 315, 14 January 1908, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association, NEW ZEALAND FRANCES. Wellington, Monday. An attack has been made on the New Zealand Budget of last year by the

Investors' Review, which wants to know where New Zealand is going to raise the £2,21(1,000 required for public works, and says the money cannot be got in London. The Premier, Sir Jo-

seph Ward, points out that it was fully explained at the time that only £1,000,-1 000 of this was required by way of loan. The rest is in hand or will he transferred from the Consolidated Fund. A sum of £8,000,000 comes from the latter, and Sir Joseph Ward says the financial results of the year have already showed that the Government will be more than able to make this transfer.

WELLINGTON'S PROGRESS. ' Wellington, Monday. Building operations in Greater Wellington during the past year were very brisk, 943 building permits being issued! The value of the work authorised mis £(ifi,s9(i. The new buildings include 49 business premises, 14 combined shops and dwellings, and 054 dwellings.

AUCKLAND WOOL SALE. Auckland, Last Night. The second wool sale of the season opens to-morrow morning. The total number of bales catalogued constitutes a record, and is in excess of the almount offered at- the opening Sale in Novem-i her. A great many small lots a« included in the catalogue, the Ncy Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co.'s total of 2321 bales including no less than 790 lots. Altogether 5055 bales will be offered at to-morrow's sale.

SHORTAGE OF WATER IN WELLINGTON. Wellington, Last Night. Owing to the continued dry weather the city authorities are carefully eonserving the water resource.?. The use of water through hoses for gardening purposes, except such water as passes through a meter, has been forbidden for some weeks, and in connection with this some prosecutions are mentioned as likely. The latest indication of scarcity of water is the determination of tha authorities to issue no permits for the present for burning rubbish. The shortage of water has become aggravated by an accident. The pressure guages in the city to-night indicated that there was a break in the main, which carries the water from the principal reservoir to the city. Men have been sent to locate the injury and effect)

Cisborne, Last Night. The Commisioncr of Crown Lands says that he hopes the Te Arai Estate, recently acquired for closer settlement by the Government, will be thrown open for selection early. ■