WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 805, 21 January 1903, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

iy -♦ ’a HIGH PRICE FOR LAND, ts } S '(Per Press Association)* “• WELLINGTON, last night, ~ At auction to-day land having " a ta frontage of 111 ft to Willis street and 119 ft to Ehews Lane, sold hy the executors of the late Robert Laery, was purchased by the Hon, Mr Duihie for £19,000, or £l7O per foot. It is understood the purchaser is acting on behalf of the City Council. The price is a record one foe that part of the city. A FIRE, , A seven-roomed dwelling, occupied hy John .Jacobs, farmer, Pahautanui, i has been destroyed by fire. The in- ‘ v r mi ranees were : House £290, furniture £IOO, both in the Commercial , Union. AMALGAMATION. > For the past two or three years a movement towards a greater Wellington, by r amalgamation of the borough of Melrose with the city, has been in progress. Negotiations have been very slow, but now it seems that the idea of the promoters of the scheme is on the eve of being carried into effect. It was announced at a meeting of the Melrose Borough Council tonight that an agreement had been arrived at as to the basis of amalgamation of the two districts. The Melrose Council has obtained consent of the city (1) to take each ward of the former borough for extension of tramways into such wards, instead or tarring the whob o? the borough, as -was at first proposed ; (2) concession to levy city rates for water and drainage as against tax for actual cost; (3) concession to expend £30,000 for street improvement in borough. Arrangements will be made next week to take a poll of ratepayers on the proposals. ‘ BOER FARMERS, The party of Boer farmers who arc travelling in Australia inspecting thr tsystem of agriculture leave Sydney foe New Zealand on February 7, accompanied by Captain Fitzpatrick. Mr Seddcm has wired that the Government will give every facility for the visitors to make themselves acquainted with farming in New Zealand.