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WELLINGTON, February IG. The ‘ Now Zealand Time*,’ commeutiug on the fact that tho rateable value of properly in the City of 'Wellington increased last year by £20,389, declares that it is growing in population and wealth more rapidly than any other city in the colony. From 1891 to 1898 Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington increased in population 23, 13, 7, and 38 per oent, respectively. Excluding Government buildings, schools, etc., the total value of rateable property amounts to £7,283,100.
Largo meetings of old soldiers last night resolved to form a Queen’s Veterans’ Association.
It has now transpired that all the Australasian insurance societies are acting on the same principle as the A.M.P. Society—namely, charging a 5 per cent, war risk on now policies taken out by members of the contingents, but making no additions to the premiums in the cose of those previously insured. 1 Wellington Wharf Union have pow a membership of nearly 400. QUEENSTOWN, February 16. A beautiful day prevailed here yesterday. The lake was the calmest the Lake Wakatipu Shipping Company’s officers have ever
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Evening Star, Issue 11168, 17 February 1900, Page 1
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