WELLINGTON.
Monday.
The Conference of Mayors and delegates from the various municipalities throughout the colony commenced. this afternoon in the Provincial Council Chambers. The Mayor of Wellington took the chair temporarily, the question of the appointment of a permanent Chairman being postponed until, to-morrow. The method of procedure was arranged, and other preliminary business transacted, after which the Council adjourned till to-morrow.
At auction . tp-day, 500 shares in the Standard Insurance Company Were sold from 2.0s to 20s 6d per share; 150 National Insurance Company, 25s 6d; 66 South British, £3 8s 6d; 57 Now jZedand Shipping Coaipany. £3....; ; .
Ifc is stated that i)rßuiler, Jwho paid £153 per foot for the Supreme Court site, has been offered, and has refused, two thousand pounds upon his bargain. ' ~ This day. The WewZealander this morning announces that the survey of the Waimate plains will be commenced today under the direction of Major Brown. It is, the New: Zealander says, expected that the natives will send out a number of women to enter a kind of form 41 protest against the survey being proceeded with;? but nothing like a strong opposition is anticipated.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2950, 30 July 1878, Page 2
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189WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2950, 30 July 1878, Page 2
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