WELLINGTON.
This day. The Times gives currency to a rumor that Sir Hercules Robinson will be the successor of Lord JNormanby in New Zealand. The Tramway Company are altering some of the curves in consequence of the cars being so frequently thrown off the line. • A private telegram from Pic to a reports that rich ore has been struck at ninety feet iv the D'Urville Island copper mine.
About 800 persons attended a temperance meeting yesterday at the Imperial Opera House. The Hon. Wm. Fox, Rev. Dr Roseby, .L W. Jago and J. A. D. Adams of Dunedin addressed the meeting. Dr Roseby stated that sixty thousand persons perished annually from, drink in the United Kingdom, and the expenditure on intoxicants in the United Kingdom alone during the year 1876 was one hundred and forty-seven millions of pounds. .,...
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3063, 9 December 1878, Page 2
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138WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3063, 9 December 1878, Page 2
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