Wellington Gossip.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2096, 22 September 1875, Page 2

Wellington Gossip.

[By Telegham;]

(fbom oue own cob»>espokdeht.)

WELLINGTON:

? Tuesday. In the House this'afternoon Mr Bradshaw gave notice that he would move in Committee on the Abolition Billr^" after district inline 46j clause 19,-.to. insert the following: 'Provided that the subsidy 3hall in no case exceed 50 per cent, of the land revenue wkich has been or may be hereafter raised from time to time within such district.' "■ The object of tkj^ amendment is to secure for outlying dis^ tricts a larger pwtion of the land revenue than they couli possibly get under the present bill, by which thickly populated districts will be largely subsidised although they hare already received large subsidies from' Provincial Governments, and in addition numerous public works. On the other hand out-districts hare received very little, and it is from those out-districts that the land fund is now being raised, i ; .... rThere was qiiite a smart earthquake shock at twentyiminutes to.seven o'clock this evening. There was a slight one ■ last Sunday morning, but this second was sufficiently pronounced to secure the general notice which has Been accorded it.. ■ j •; .