TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1700, 12 August 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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OAM ARU, August 6. The Livingstone railw.iy wns opened to-day. An excursion train with a number of exciutionists went to Tokohari, where (he visitors were hospitably enter-tainr-d hy Messrs. McMasters, the owners of the esiate at the tei minus of the hue. WELLINGTON, Au»ust 11. It is notified in the Gazette to-ni;:l)t that Mr. Larnach has resigned the p «rt folio of Minister of Mines, and that Sir J. Vo<;pl is now in charge of that deportment. | This no doubt is m pursuance of die arrangement announced sometime ai,'O, uniier wiiicli Larnacli is Co tie vole (us attention to tlie working railways.) WELLINGTON. August 12. Requisitions are in circulation inviting Sir G. Grey ami Sir J. Vogel to deliver addresses. Mr. Ballance will probably speak here, too. The Corporation and other bodies interested intend to urge tbe Government to reinstate the clock when the post office ip rebuilt. Part of the funds weie oiigmsilly supplied to Government by public bodies, and as the clock was not insuied, it is considered the Government ai c responsible for its loss. DUNEDIN, August 10. It is repoited that the Crown Solicitor has advised the Government that they cannot inteifere with the Port Chalmers Dock Trust loan.