WELLINGTON, Wednesday.
A-heavyN.W. gale has been raging here all day. No damage is reported. Kaia set in this evening, and the force of the wind has somewhat abated. It is stated that the lion. C. J. Pharazyn is to be proceeded against for illegal practice at yestei day's election. Some two years ago, at the last election for Thorndon, Mr Pharazyn voted at each polling-booth, for which offence he was duly convicted. This conviction, made under the Corrupt Practice^ freveatioft
Act, disqualified him from voting for three years, and by his present action, it is alleged, he has made himself liable to a fine. Tho late Mr Oliver Wakefield, who was killed by a train accident in Dunedin recently, had bequeathed £90 as an endowment for the benefit of the Benevolent Institution. The Premier and the Minister for Public Works, with Mrs Mitohclson and Mr Seed (Secretary of Customs), Mr Gill (Undersecretary of Land Purchase Department of Native Office), Mr Ikiley (Chief Inspector of Sheep), and Mr Murray, of the Bank of New Zealand, were passengers by the Hinemon, which sailed shortly after midnight tin's morning for the Manukau. The weather department notify approaching storms.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1850, 15 May 1884, Page 3
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195WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1850, 15 May 1884, Page 3
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