ihe Canadian Parliament will be asked this year to enact laws against polygamy, because of the Mormon influx in the north-west territory. The head master of the Clyde Quay School, Wellington, was obliged to turn away between 250 and 300 children on Monday on account of want of accommodation.
-Referring to the collapse of the hotel in George street, Sydnejv'the correspondent of the Melbourne Age remarks ;—“ The house contained some 30 rooms, and it is said a few nights before had no less than GO men-o’-vvar’s men sleeping in it. It was, perhaps, the oldest house standing in the city, and is said to be the identical building in which the Bank of Australia did business in 1828, when, on the 15th of Feptember of that year, some thieves entering an unoccupied house opposite, tunnelled unupp fche street and cleared the bank cotters of their contents, which lucky stroke is said to have laid the fonpdp,- ! tiou of the fortunes of more than one 1 of our ‘ first families.’ ” I
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2001, 30 January 1890, Page 2
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170Untitled Temuka Leader, Issue 2001, 30 January 1890, Page 2
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