NOTES FROM WELLINGTON.

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NOTES FROM WELLINGTON.

(By Telegraph.) (FEOH OT7B SPSCIAJu CORRESPONDENT.) WELLINGTON", April 21. The Health Officer has condemned forty buildings in frhe city, and the owners are being notified to demolish them. Steps have been, taken by the Berhampore residents to obtain- a Supreme Court injunction to restrain the City Council from erectingthe plague hospital on the town belt. With reference to yesterday's telegram from Dunedin stating that it' bad been decided to dispense with the process of fumigating the sailing vessels which arrived there the previous day from Queensland and Tasmania, tbe Colonial Secretary states that there must be some mistake. He has not authorised any relaxation of the rule, and he cannot conceive that any local authority has taken the responsibility of over-riding Ms strict directions. He declares that these and ail other oversea vessels must undergo thorough fumigation before landing cargo or approaching the wharvea The City Engineer Jiftd about 140 applications for the eight sanitary inspectorships. . The Government has notified the Premier of Tasmania that it cannot relax the quarantine restrictions placed upon vessels coming from that dolony. The supervisors of fumigation, operations in Wellington were to-day engaged in directing tbe work of fumigating the sailing vessel Valador, which arrived from Newcastle. Sulphur and bisulphide of carbon, were used. Mr Ward baa cabled to London, Paris, and Bombay, to ascertain when the prophylactic, ordered in March, is likely to reach New Zealand. . Eig&t extra inspectors nave been appointed, with particular instructions to visit the fish, fruitj and provision shops, in some cases, several times a week, and the buildings occupied by Asiatics.