WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6487, 16 May 1899, Page 1

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

i [Pbom Our Corresponbjent.] ,■: WELLINGTON, May 15. Considerable public comment is made upon the remarks made by his Excellency the Governor at the reception at Karangahake on the . policy of borrowing. Lord Ranfurly is reported! to have said that, whilst he approved of borrowing for the purposes ;of construction of railways, roads, bridges, ; etc/, for opening up the country, he regarded the expenditure of loan money on mining ventures as _wrpng in principle. In, s.ome : circles these remarks are condemned as injudicious and improper in one in his position. - ; Severaljcomplaints have been received Dy the traffic^ section of the Railway Department from the South Island respecting the inadequate supply of, trucks... The answer to ail is that the /Depiartmtmt is doing its utmost to: meet the increased demand during the wheat season, a number of extra liands having been put on at the AddingtoK workshops^' : ■ The -Defence Department has ordered from England five hundred/ dummy rifles for teaching the manual exercise to boys in the Board schools' of the Wellington districk- -■•■'•■■('. i-^.^-A-. ;,• ■ ■; , • Speculation ; is already busy in poUtical circles as ;; to' the' : probable work of the session. 1 :The general opinion is that +here j will be^sppae hdt •discussion over tj" 'Jones ! case' -.'aricl' the' •conduct of the '\ '.. , ! 'iv L or-" Genehtl.-' /■•«•■'"••'/ ■-, . "■ ■