LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.
[by telegraph.—press association*.] Wbi.i.ingto.n'. Friday. The City Council intend to get a Bill introduced this session enabling them to float a loan tor cemetery purposes to the extent of £1,500, without the consent of the ratepayers. New drainage works are to be undertaken, which will necessitate an increase of the overdraft. The prevalence of typhoid fever_ has caused considerable alarm. Another victim succumbed to typhoid this morning in the person of Mr Fulton, engineer of the Mimawatu Railway Company. A number of private persons arc also down with tho disease. Captain Saville, A. D.G., is improving. Lady Onslow, Lord Granley and tutor left for Nelson yesterday, to remain there until the first week in August. On dit, that fear of the typhoid scourge had something to do with their departure.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 2
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133LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 2
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