WELLINGTON NEWS.
■» [Peb Pbess Association.! WELLINGTON, June 5. Mr M'Guire, member for Egmont, moves the Address in Eeply. The Financial Statement will be ready for delivery on Friday week, if the debate on the Address in Reply is finished. The Petone Bailway workshops are to be enlarged, and a quantity of new machinery is to be ordered. The incroase is necessitated by the enlargement of the ; traffic between here and Napier. ! Captain Moorhouse, of the Artillery, has r not resigned in consequence of any special action of the Defence Department, but "on the general ground that it is impossible to carry on the battery with the present capil tation allowance of £2. There was Borne f talk of the Battery resigning en masse, but 3 it decided not to take such an extreme step. The report that Chomis, the Kaiwarra murderer, attempted suicide in the Auckland gaol is correct. He inflicted wounds I on himself with the ordinary tin knife supplied for gaol use, and lost a pint of ' blood, but soon recovered.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7182, 5 June 1891, Page 3
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