WELLINGTON NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12278, 27 October 1902, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

Br Telegraph,—Special to Herald. FEOJI ODE OWN COBEKSPONDENT. Wellington, Saturday. The Government will give a subsidy of £3OOO towards the construction of the proposed high level bridge over the Waikato river at Cambridge. Tho Carnegie Steel Trust has offered to supply a bridge for £7500. It was reported at a meeting of the Trades and Labour Council that there was a debit of £lO5 on the year’s working of tho Eight Honrs’ Demonstration Committee, and that it was pcopossd to make a call upon tho various unions to meet it. William Blake, aged 88, who died in the Mount View Asylum the other day, has been for half hie life maintained by tho colony. Ho was committed to tho Karoti Asylum 44 years ago. Although mentally alllroted he was able to do a good deal of work about the institution. Experiments which have been made recently by Dr. Wohlmann, Government balneologist at Rotorua, go to show that there is an inexhaustible supply of water adaptable For the purposes of curative baths. Bering operations have proved this beyond doubt. It is intended to build a new bathhouse in the sanatorium grounds, within which a variety of baths will bo fitted up on tho latest lines. They will include mad baths.