WELLINGTON NEWS.
[Per Press Association."! WELLINGTON, March 23. The Tutanekai leaves to-day to begin the work of .laying the new cable. She has forty miles on board, and takes twenty extra hands. Captain Gray navigates her, ( and Mr Logan and other telegraph officials *" are on board. If the weather holds fine, she will take about three weeks over the work. The alterations at the Parliament . buildings -have involved the destruction of a pohutukawa tree, which stood in front of the old entrance, and- was the only tree I allowed .to remain when the rest .were cut; * dowii. three » or four .., years '. ago. ,It>wa_s ■] planted in ■'the';." early sixties, ..and -^as: the. > fergest'-of the fewpohutu^awas in Wielding-;, jton*. .■ v .The electric lights axle now in'- pbsV : tion, ;and work! is going .on* briskly at; the, •' buildings. ;. . '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6115, 23 March 1898, Page 3
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135WELLINGTON NEWS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6115, 23 March 1898, Page 3
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