DEPARTMENTAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3007, 19 December 1896, Page 2

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS.

In VHtfe tiie bubonic plague in tttdld*, tuft Government has decided to ..take stops to prevent its introduction into the Colony, and tbo Colonial Secretary has' issued the necessary instructions to the different' Boards of Health and Customs officers to eft'edfc this* lb has been decided to. eipend JBISCO in ttdditioiU to the Stamp Office. , NOW Government r&iltfay passes have boon iSsued on the Government Railways to members Of the General Assonibly. McWbors and efc-idembers can either retain or return their parses. Should they dboidp tO retain them, they will have W pay j6l; They Will, of course, be superseded by the ne\V passes and will duly bo 66 Value ds souvenirs. Oabidot has passed.appropriations oX «£AOO fdr the Moawbanga Police Station, XGOd for road deviation at Oliineihhri, «£SOO for Anderson’S road bridge, - . £2OOO fdr tlio Motuoka section of tile Midland Railway and lias decided to graiit d conipassionate Allowance, equal to one year’s salary, to the widow of . the into Constable Eoddell, of Auckland.

The tender of Murray Arnold has been, accepted for the ironwork oii tlio seaward Bush railway, . It has 'been decided to retire Mr James FergUsOH, CliieC Clerk of the Dunedin Post Office, at the end of the financial year. It has also been decided to retire, Mr A. S. Foster the chief clerk of the Magistrate’s Court, Ddnodin, oh accodnt of failing dye."UtrA 6. Allsii,. 1i.H.8. for Waikouaiti, lias b6eh appointed a member of the Otago Harbour Board vice Mr Hugh. Gully, resigned. Mr A. E. Devore, has been as a member of the. Auckland Harbour Bjayd.^ Government has. decided to erect a police bOildintf, •: The, committee appointed to decide upon the sitp for tbe ;sta,ti}© is to meet oh Monday morning at 10 o’clock, ,• , ~ : -.Government has decided to take part in the Paris Exhibition of 1900, and will Join with the Imperial authorities and British dependencies in providing one largo building in which to exhibit British products and .manufactures.

> In connection with the application for costs by the Licensing at Palmerston North, Government has decided that tho Colony is not liable, and therefore the committee’s demand cannot bo acceded to.

• ■ With reference to tho petitions signed by certain of tho members of Parliament and by residents in Canterbury praying for the release of the convict- Chomis, the matter is still being considered by Cabinet.