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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1783, 19 September 1874, Page 2

PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

v r i, Wellington, This Day. l«f I ™]lcn(T's, cruise .-Jrill.probij.ly. last about throe weeks. Lady fler*,,,,, J is much better. The .joun£e, J£ti££ tune the Marquis of Gorman by i 9 rHi^S by Cairns of the Government of Qu.enS land, probably early in December. Wellington, Friday eren in jr. «» ♦' i/ 0™?1^ Government have, advertised for sale, on October 26, 100 000 S' s/f sW and agricultural S ThP«f Ii ast fi Coasfc contains 43,000 acres. ™c are fi^e other blocks, of which 6,000 acres are in the rieinity of Wei ington The Provincial Gorerniicnt have also determined to sell all t^TS aniMmvt^ 011 and Mills foundary, and upon whirli fhi* new Goremmeut buiidin g ?^JS^ station are to be erected TiS a^ c^Sr e8- Jt be Go^ & authority advanced £-5,000 at 5 per S to Mr. Halcombe, for th. pu^pLe of being expended in public work's Q,i the Maachester Block, better. knonnZ he Welding settlement. Dur.ng laltVe's on Mr. Halcombe, who is colonial man«cr er applied to have given back security tofhe extent of £7,500, which they had given the Governmentfor the due parfonSe P r ov;n C?n i dr °nS °f th« contract, buHkc Provincial Government refused. A™™,} nr At;ckia nd, This day. TW^l 5 ' ?* M ™y> fi-om Hobartown ;w^^ s y a^ mthesharemark^tO- d^ T^^n • » °O*o.JCAKDEii, This day. , Thore is not much mining news. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Hall, nominal editor of The Coromandel Mail, was fined £1, andLt ! for an unprovoked assault upon 'Yon ThS rt edlf°7 f the CoromanSel.Ne^ Ihomson, lecturer to the Mutual PM2'i n so many misstatements again t the Government Insurance in a recent lecture, that an official contradxefcTh a? Peare- d int^ Coromandel JNews to-day, has quite nonplused Thomson, his local agent, and policy holders.