PACIFIC CABLE COMPANY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1904, Page 6

PACIFIC CABLE COMPANY.

HEADQUARTERS AT AUCKLAND. flit TKLKOIIAPK— PUKS3 ASSOOIATION.I AUCKLAND, This Day. Commander Lacy, of the cable steamer Iris, has received a cablegram from the Pacific Cable Boiim, slating that it has been definitely decided to mako Auckland the headquarter*, subject to a suitable wharf being secured. The suggested fiito at Kauri Point in said to bo unsuitable, owing to tho btroiig current running, and efforts are now being nwdo to securo a borth on tho city side of tho harbour. Tho local officers lm*o been authorised to consult CapUiin "Lacy as to tho company's requirements.

Tho schooner Jessie. Niccol, which wan sunk recently by the Rotomuluina, was put u|i to auction, by Messrs. Laery and Co. this aft«rnoon, and was purchased by Mr. Tringham, on behalf of a local syndicate, for £80. Tho vessel's- boat brought £5. Mr. C. Winter, Inspector of tho Bank of Australasia in New Zealand, and Mrs. Winter, who} wont to Europe lust year, are now on their way back to Wellington. They are at preeent in California, whoro they will remain for a tc-iv weeks. The Hon. W. Hali-Jonos, Minister for Public Works, accompanied by Air. Hogg, M.H.K., and Inspector fteoit, made a tour of the MaHerton district la«-t week for tho purpose of asoeitaining tho nature of tho works urgently required by the settleia. Thrtip days were spent in driving over various roads in the Counties of Masterton, MauticoviUo, ami Kketabuna. . Besides examining llio roads tho Ministerial party had an oppoituuity ol sampling tho weather, having encountered a downpour of sevf^il hours' duration in tho Mount Baker B.ock.' The rfsult or the trip to likeiy to piove most satisfactory for a I'onsideioble number of selUsri», who aie b.vdly in wuut of rouilg nud Uridgcs. Tho fruit crop in the Alexander distiict i'« a very heavy one this year, und some of tho orchards have moducod pretty well a record yield.

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