WELLINGTON NEWS.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Wellington, Saturday, The Weather. A cold southerly wind, with rain and frequent showers ofhail and sleet prevailed all yesterday and last nigbt. There are signs now of it clearing up, Labour Bills.
The Labour Bills Committee wns to sit this morning to further consider the Industrial Conciliation Bill, but the meeting web postponed owing to the absence of the Minister and the Labour mambets, Uaptuin Russell and Messrs Dutbie and Buchanan were the only inerabirs present, and it would have been a perfectly valid act for them to hare altered the Bill and reported it to the House in auy shape they liked, had they so desired it, as they wero a duly constituted quotum. Colonial Titles. The Governor has received a des> patch, informing him that on the re« commendation of tbo Marquis of Eipon, Secretary of State for the colonies, the Queen has signified her assent to the colonial title of "Honorable" boing recognised .in Great Britain and Ireland, or any other part of Hor Majesty's domiuions. The Flax Industry. The Government mtend t> appoint an expert hb flax grader at a salary of £4OO per annum. The salary of the grader will bo made a charge upon the flux in the form of a small duty. A Mori Ma. A party of Waikato Natives gave an exhibition of the Halu at the Theatre Royal lust uiglt. Tho dance waff not very exoiting, The Eternal Lease. Mr 0. H.Mills will ask the Minister for Lands on Tuesdiy next if ho will pencil a selector tindor ilio " eternal lease" clause of last year's Land Act to pay the amount of tho survey fee in instalments, The payment of tho survey fee in a lump sum falls very heavily upon small selectors : at preßont, and if the request is granted it would bo a vory popular concession. Land for Settlement Apparently the setthrs in this provincial district are very well satisfied with their holdings bb only one offer was made from (he Wellington distriot last year to the Government, cl land for purchase under «' The Land for Settlement Act, 1892."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4495, 12 August 1893, Page 3
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354WELLINGTON NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4495, 12 August 1893, Page 3
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