MONTHLY SUMMARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 64, 17 March 1898, Page 3

MONTHLY SUMMARY.

POLITICAL,

Continued from Page 8.

The Cabinet has appropriated a fi"ther sum of £3,000 for the extern--, r of the Otag-o Central Railway. Ministers have appropriated a i of £1,000 for further works or, North Island Main Trunk Kailwa.1 . Cabinet ha 3 passed a vote of £5,(3^^....^ telegraph connection between Aiick and New Plymouth, and has author :. the expenditure of £22,000 on railway i. - ing stock. ' , :; The election of a member to fill .in vacancy, caused by the retirement of S • Robert Stout, in Wellington City took j»isi. • on March 8, and Dassed off very quietly: fact it was the most sedate election iu-'ii • Wellington. This was partly owing-to extra number of polling booths prevem. f undue crushing, and partly to the insti \-. ■ tions given to the returning officers :v I police to allow no intenerence with voW ■. There were 16 booths, and Mr Duthie I'- 1 a majority at 12 of them, the iinal corrected result being Duthie 7,283 • Kirk 6,254 ■...-■' Majority for Dntlrie ... 1,029 ;