WELLINGTON.
This Day. ..Sir Willian Fitzherberfc has accepted the Speakership of the Legislative Council. His seat . for ?the Hutt 4 it is said, will have for a candidate Mr. Jackson, late "Chief Surveyor of the^fWellingfcoh cligtricty who : was dismisiH because he : %ouTd not resign. Writs are gazetted for the election of Native members for the Eastern' and Southern Maori districts. • Nomifiation on the ; I6th r inst. Polling to b*e on July 7th for the Eastern district, the nomination takes place in Napier. Mr. F. G. Hanilin is to be Returning 1 Officer. Ship owners? have resolved to make a general reduction in all classes of wages from 10 to 20 per -cent. A large Central Post and Telegraph Office is to be built here of brick. Tenders have been .invited. ;.':•■ It is stated, semi-officially, that the Government will propose an increased scale of land tax on properties valued over fifteen hundred pounds. The total contribution to the Kaitangata fund has reached £15,000.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 808, 13 June 1879, Page 2
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162WELLINGTON. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 808, 13 June 1879, Page 2
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