WELLINGTON.
This day.
• Information bas reached town that Faber's Club Hotel, Featherston, is on fire, and is still burning. The insurances on (he stock and building are £3000, among the following offices :—National, United, Colonial, Union, South British, and Standard, but the individual amounts are not at present known. Wednesday. At a meeting of the Executive Council, at Dunedin last night, it was decided to extend the time for sending in a report on the management of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum until the 19th of April. Miss Moffat, who is now matron to the Female Eefuge, at Dunedin, has been appointed matron to the Asylum here. Bain is wanted badly. Water in the reservoir has now reached the unusual low depth of 25 feet. This is the lowest depth registered in any previous year. His Excellency the Governor returns from bis southern trip on Friday. At a meeting of Mills' creditors this afternoon, it was unanimously resolved to grant the debtor his immediate discharge. The little steamer Mohaka, which stranded at Blenheim, has been launched, and airived here to-day to undergo repa'.rs.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3818, 24 March 1881, Page 2
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182WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3818, 24 March 1881, Page 2
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