WELLINGTON.
This day.
It is staled the Maiquis of Norman by is not to enter upon his .duties as Governor of Victoria before the erd of Feburary next. ' '
Tbe question of a more ceatrßl site for the railway, station is being taken up vigorously, and the City Council will memorialise the Government to remove the present station to the extreme end of the sew reclamation.
The Ci.'v Council have passed a resolution that it is undesirable any officer of the corporation should become a member of the County Council or other political boc'y.
The City Council also agreed to ask permission of the ratepayers to borrow
one hundred thousand pounds for improving the streets and footpaths.
In reply to a deputation of the Hutfc County Council, which waited on the Government tp obtain aid towards repair* ing the serious damage'inflicted on the West Coast road by the late floods, Mr Ballance said the Government declined to j
accspt any responsibility whatever in regard to the main roads of the Colony. If the counties would not undertake the work, he asked what use were they at all P If the Government did loan them • sum, it could only be for two years, the time for which subsidies were guaranteed, aid tbe county would have to undertake to repay the loan out of subsidies at the end of that time.
A deputation consisting of Captains Crow, Best and Thompson, representing the New Zealand Rifle Association, waited upon the Defence Minister to-day to ascertain what proportion of the two thousand pounds voted by the Government would be given to the Association. Colonel Whitmore, replying, said that whatever the Association subscribed the Government, would give pound for pound, and.that any officers they might choose to send to Nel.*on would have their passages end expenses paid. The Association will have to make, their own range. The deputation considered the result of the interview very satisfactory. „ \ It will shortly be notified that after the Ist January next the poit offices at Oamaru, Timaru, and Wanganui, are constituted chief post offices. [
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3067, 13 December 1878, Page 2
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344WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3067, 13 December 1878, Page 2
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