LATE TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VXII, Issue 7155, 21 March 1901, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(PKR PBBSS ASSOCIATION.)

Wellington, March 21.

The Government has decided that the number of councillors in boroughs shall be as follows : — Population under 5000, nine members; over 5000 and under 80,000, twelve; 80,000 and over, fifteen. The last provision for the present will only apply to Auckland and Wellington.

The Cabinet decided last night that the New Zealand Military Contingent at the opening of the Federal Parliament shall consist of one hundred, viz., twenty men each from the Permanent Artillery, mounted corps, infantry, naval artillery, and Maoris. The men will be selected from all parts of the colony by the. Commander of the Forces.

It has been definitely decided not to hold the usual Easter camps, but authority has been given for the mounted rifles of Otago and Canterbury to hold separate camps. The Southland ojrps will hold a district camp at Wyndbam, the Nelson corps will have a camp near Nelson. There will be a general camp in each of the four centres during the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall's visit.

The Government has approved the plans of the new baths at Rotorua to be called after the Duke and Duohess of, Cornwall. '

Wbllinoton, Maroh 21.

Ratepayers in the Onslow .borough at a poll decided by a large majority in favor of rating on unimproved value.

Christchurch, Match 21.

At the inquest on a 2£-year-old boy named James Featty, who died from eating match heads, the evidence went to show the boy had been in the habit of eating matches unknown to his mother.

Auckland, March 21.

Mr Hatch, of the Colonial Sugar Company at Fiji, got a telegraph message at Suva stating that six native women and one man were killed in the hurricane. The mill at Bau was severely damaged, and several thousand acres of cane destroyed.