WELLINGTON ITEMS.
[BY TELEGRAPH I'RKSB ASSOCIATION.} ' : Wellington, Friday, The Shipmasters' . Association > have voted £20 to the widow of Captain Leys, who was recently drowned off the Wanganui Heads. -V •. , , . The Customs duty paid on parcels by post shows a steady increase, the amount having swollen from £1701 in : 1889, to - £5279 last' year. Rain has stopped, but the weather Is very cold. One and ft-halfinehas have already fallen this month. , • ■•:> ! ! The Pomahaka estate, six miles : from Clinton, lately acquired by the Government, is being surveyed into blocks of from one to three hundred acres, and will be offered on perpetual lease in February.? ' The soil has i never town ploughed. ''
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9401, 6 January 1894, Page 5
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