WELLINGTON.
This day.
lizard, the lawyer, will contest the country districts 1 against Brandon, the present representative.
H. Williams left for Wairarapa yesterday to bring down a ton of stone from the reef at which he and party hare been working for some time.
A interesting experiment took place this afternoon on the reclaimed land of the steam fire engine of the steam tag Lyttelton. After about three hundred yards of hose had been laid, the steam engine which is separate from the main eqgine of the tug, threw a rolume of water, greater in quantity and higher than the stream, which represented the pressure of the town water supply, showing that the tug fire engine would be of great use in Lyttelton amongst houses or shipping. The Ministerial Programme. It is understood that the programme of Ministers is: The Financial Statement on Thursday, and the Public Works Statement on Friday. The Home will probably sit that night till the business is completed, and the formal dissolution take place on the Monday following.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3315, 6 August 1879, Page 2
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173WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3315, 6 August 1879, Page 2
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