WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 53

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(Froh Oot Owk Cobbisponpzkt.) "WELLINGTON, November 2Sy Mr W. T. Gordon, who for several ye*. has been private secretary to the Hon. Mix Carroll, was to-day married to Mies M'ColL sister of the chief engineer at the oitj electrical power station. News has been received that Mr K«n« neth Hume, on the staff of the Sydney office of the Union Steam Ship Company (son of Lieut. -colonel Hume, of Wellington), was married in Sydney to-day to Mis* « Garde, of thai city. Four Chinamen arrived by the Moeraki to-day and contributed £400, in the shape^ of poll tax, to the revenue. The education test does not come into force until the aofe passed last session receives the King's assent. WELLINGTON, NoTember 28. The October vital statistics show that 4f of the deaths were of children under fiva years of age, being 17.04 per cent, of tha whole number Thirty-five of these wera under one year of age, Eighty-eight of tha deaths were of peoo'e aged 65 and up> wards. The potato blight is spreading in that Wellington district. Large quantities* of diseased potatoes are ooming into the Wellington markets from the Hutt Valley and from Otaki The Sydney importation!, on the other hand, are excellent. Mr T E Ryan writes from Taupo tothe Tourist Department that the trout fishing is very good all over 'the district. " Rainbow trout are 7ery plentiful in the. Tongariro River, so that anyone can fish' there in daytime without bothering for tha brown trout at Tiight, as in the past. There . is any quantity of »ainbow in the Tokaani^ River of about 21b to 31b weight and ire lovely condition so that »' make? it Tend easy fisbing ■» \ht itream flows .oast th« hotel there. Larp-e ainbovr up to 17ilh , are beinjr »aught •,*' Ta'jpo ie*-> *.he steamej' landing.