WELLINGTON NEWS.
[Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, March 16. The sum paid by the Union Company-in London for the cargo steamer Ella, since renamed the Eaina, was about ,£12,500. In order to push on the additions to the Parliament Buildings, a number of arc lights are to be erected and work carried on day and nigbt in three.shifts. Sir Robert Stout and Mr Firth, headmaster of the Wellington College, haw® been nominated for two of the seats on the Victoria College Councilat the disposal jSFtfie' graduates; ’’-v ■’ ■ X ■ The missing man Withers was found, in a swamp, and will be -examined as to.Jiis sanity. G. Harmston, the flip-flap rider in Fitzgerald’s circus, met with a painful accident at Greytown. The horse fell while-the rider was turning a- somersault, and rolling on Harmston crushed his anMe severely.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11530, 17 March 1898, Page 5
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