WELLINGTON,
This day. Government are taking iteps to invents gate the representations regarding the discovery of auriferous reefs in the Wairarapa district, and it is expected that in a week or two they will be able to set all doubts at rest and publish the result. The prospectors, are only waiting to be placed in possession of their hundred acres lease promised them, when they will disclose all the .necessary information regarding the discovery. The locality is very accessable, and the reefs are described as rraning for miles with immense masses of stone. Water power is handy, and there is plenty of timber.
It is stated on good authority that the Bank of New Zealand is dissatisfied with the conditions on which it Holds the Government account, and lias given the necessary notice to terminate its contract. The terms on which the Banks in other colonies hold various public accounts are of a much more advantageous character for banks than those given by this colony to its bankers.
An immense requisition is being got tip to induce the Hon. Bandall Johnston to stand" for the Mayoralty. Twenty lists being circulated this morning are rapidly filling with signatures.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3358, 26 September 1879, Page 2
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197WELLINGTON, Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3358, 26 September 1879, Page 2
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