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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2281, 28 April 1886, Page 2

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UnitrdPuess Association.

. Wellington, April 27. The Premier left for Nelson this evening. Mr Ballanep. is expected to return trom the north on Friday. . ' The volunteers who have boon attending the Wauganui encampment returned this afternoon, and express themselves satisfied with the camp arrangements. A man named Marriott, a tailor, was found dead this afternoon in a closet. The cause of death is unknown.

' Ferns sent home from New Zealand for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition arrived there in good condition. Communications are passing between 'the Home and Colonial Governments on the question of establishing a parcel post with the Mother Country.

The Tutara lizards taken Home by Dr Von Haast arrived in a healthy condition. Six out of the twenty have beon sent to the King of the Belgians, .the remainder being placed in the Zoological Gardens. The following census returns are available, subject to a possible slight alteration :-Boroughs - Wauganui, v 4,900; Thames, 4,460; lnvercargill, 5,714. Electoral districts—Thames, 5,038; Waikiito, 2,395; Waitotara, 5,077 ; Eginont, 6,429; Waitaki, 6,853. Both Wauganui and the Thamos show a considerable decrease on the Registrar's estimate, Mr 'Brown's estimate for the. whole colony, based on the'increase of births over deaths and shipping returns is 585,000, but from disturbing influences there is an impossibility of ascertaining the number of people who go away, without booking their passages. Tho returns for the large towns aro not yet in, and are not likely to be available for some time, owing to large quantities of forms which have to be handled and carefully checked. Gisborne, this day. The Taupo was ashore at ■ Tuahin'e Point, throe miles from here, at two o'clock this morning. No lives were lost. The vessel's bottom is much damaged.