WELLINGTON NOTES.
;By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.
WELLINGTON, this day,
The Government is negotiating for the purchase of the Flaxburn estate, twenty-five miles from Blenheim, for a small farm settlement.
A, railway is under construction from Blenheim to Awatere.
Five tons of loaf cheese, ordered by tbe War Office as a test shipment to South Africa, were made at Kaupokonui, Taranaki.
Two submarine boats, about a hundred tons each, intended for Wellington and Auckland, are now under construction, and are rapidly approaching completion, under the supervision of the War Offlce. They leave England at the end of August. Captain Fraser, of the, New Zealand Shipping Company, brings the first to Wellington, and Cdptain Atwood, the second, to Auckland.
All school cadets 4ft 6in in height will be sent to Addington Park, and special transports will convey visiting volunteers to "Welling-ton district.
Many of the New Zealand ensigna received by the Education Department ha*ve been rejected owing to slovenly work. English contractors for making flags axe busy with Imperial orders, and axe refusing colonial orders.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 131, 4 June 1901, Page 2
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