WELLINGTON.
' Last "night. The expenditure for Native purposes for the year ending Juno 3rd, amounted to about £9500; of this sum £3806 7s 3d was spent in pensions, £2171 8s 9d in food and clothing, £699 18s 6d on medical attendance and medicine, and £1410 14s 4d on gratuities and contributions. The salary of the Native Minister is nil, Mr Sheehan drawing his salary as Minister for Justice, £1250, though most of his time is occupied in Native affairs. This day. The New Zealander says :—We are assured oa perfectly reliable authority that cablegrams have been received from the Agent General in London within the past day or t^o, stating that rumours of a Maqri disaffection, had reached there and that it has had' a very disquieting , influence in monetary circles. .'. . - Reports from Allen who is prospecting the Wairarapa, says be feels assured there
would be no difficulty in making a pound per day if provisions could be obtained without travelling to Masterton. A number of other parties are out on the eastern side of the valley, and one found a reef containing antimony and copper in the form of malactite.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3308, 29 July 1879, Page 2
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191WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3308, 29 July 1879, Page 2
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