GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
. SEEKING A NEW HOME. 1 By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A party of Russian gentlemen is at present staying in this city. The ob ject of the visitors is to investigate New Zealand's land for settlement schemes.) They have recently been in Manila and intend visiting Australia in the inter tests of a party of nine hundred families, representing two thousand persons, with a capital of between fifty and sixty thousand pounds, which they desire to invest in land settlement in the colonies They have had an interview -with the Under-Secretary for Lands. The names of the leaders of the party are Vladimir . Fiaaenkc and W. Steiffncr. _' ••■>. A PECULIAR POINT. ' Wellington, Last Night. When the barqucntine Pclotus arrived at Wellington yesterday, Captain Cozens reported to the police that one of the rrew named Wilberg, while sufTerinn j'*om delirium tremens, jumped over jL a 'td on Fridav off Palliser Bay, but ho I I°, rot on board again. A charge of JafL™ '«! suicide has been laid agains* Messed the' °P Mm yesterday that a, ? [ ?v,2 L«4 the man was a lunatic SSand't^f 1 considered in the m <tt^ U) "' ! Wellington. By the steamer Cornwall, *w t „f Ijyed this morning from the" * " " England ports, there came \C*> »'™' •grants, 45 of whom disembark he Tl »' . the same number at Auckland, the »"" being bound for other ports of the . * f minion. The majority joined the vesse, at Glasgow, and amongst them are several farmers arid domestic servants. The Cornwall's accommodation was all taken <up, and it is said there w*re many persons still desirous of coming to New Zealand. , , „.,».,»■ Wellington, Last Night. The total declared capital of the 41 assisted adult passengers by the Cornwall from Liverpool yesterday is £(2 B. One hundred and ten third-class passen gerg paid the whole of their travelling expenses. The immigrants were met on arrival by Mr. A. A. P. Darby, Immigration Officer. • - NEW CLYDESALE BLOOD. Wellington, Saturday. ' Three valuable Clydesalc horses, co.i ■signed to the New Zealand flovernment ■arrived by the Cornwall from Rcollan.l "The animals will be unshipped at Dun <edin.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 320, 11 January 1909, Page 3
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349GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 320, 11 January 1909, Page 3
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