WELLINGTON NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1902, Page 5

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(By Telegraph.- Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, this day. PROPOSED WELLINGTON LOAN. At a- meeting of the Wellington City Council a motion was passed by which the pending loan proposals in connection with electric tramways, town hall, and wood paving were consolidated. A fresh proposal will be submitted for sanction of the electors authorising the borrowing of a total sum of £330,000 on the security of a special rate of tehpence in the pound on all rateable property in the city, on the basis of annual value, for the term of the loan, thirty/ years, the money to be appropriated thus:—Electric tramways, £225 r 000; town hall, £50.000; wood paving, £554)00. The bank will advance up to 50 per cent, as wanted without floating the debentures pending a satisfactory opportunity for floating them.

JMR DUTHIE AND THE PREMIER. I The "Times" to-day publishes a I strongly-worded letter over the signature of John Duthie severely com■menting on the Premier's remarks in the Tasker case. DAIRY INSTRUCTOR. Mr J. D. McGowan, dairy instructor, New Plymouth, has been appointed to visit factories in Auckland provincial district for their instruction and organisation.

(Bs" Telegraph.—Press Association.) A SUDDEN DEATH. Edward Btirman, aged GS, died suddenly last night from failure of tbe heart's action. THE OHAJtIU TRAGfEDY. At the inquest on H. Ne-edham, the victim of the Ohariu tragedy, the jury returned a verdict that deceased so handled his gun that it went off and shot him dead, and that the oc-currence-.was. accidental.