MR E. M. SMITH'S VISIT TO WELLINGTON.
Us B. If. Surra, M.H.R., who left for Wellington on Friday last for the purpose of interviewing members of the Government on the Oamaru dredge question, returned by tho through train on Tuesday night. Mr Smith states that he saw the Premier and also tho Hon R. Scddon, Minister of Public Works, and urged on them the importance of at onco beginning dredging operations at the Now Plymouth harbor. The result of Mr Smith s intor view waß that the Minister of Public Worka arranged to close with tho terms on which the Oamaru Harbor Board were willing to lend the dredge, and to send down an official from Wellington to take charge of the dredge and proceed with her to Port Chalmers, where she will' be docked for repairs and cleaning. Mr Smith anticipates that the dredge should arrive here in about fourteen days. It is his intention to address his constituocts after the dredge comes here.
The population of France is now 38,095,150, while that of United Kingdom 37,740,283, bo that Great Britain has now come within 354,867 of her great neighbour. At tho beginning of the presont century France was 27,000,000 to the 16,000,000 of the British Islands,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9232, 18 November 1891, Page 2
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208MR E. M. SMITH'S VISIT TO WELLINGTON. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9232, 18 November 1891, Page 2
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