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■ WELLINGTON. - Wednesday, . The Native Minister arrived last night, and has been in earnest conference with his colleagues to-day. There is nothing fresh regarding Native affairs. It is understood that a Royal Commission on public works, Civil Service organisation, and local industries . will shortly be made, the difficulty in selecting suitable Commissioners being the cause of the delay. .
Decisive action is being taken by the Government regarding the proceedings of the French Government in chartering a schooner to convey from New Caledonia to Auckland a batch of French convicts whose term of service had expired. It is understood that the Government are maturing a scheme of careful retrenchment in the various departments of the service, and the Estimates for the coming financial year, will show a considerable reduction.
In consequence of the re-arrangement of the San Francisso mail services the March mail steamer will leaye San Francisco on Saturday, the 13th prox., instead of Monday the 15th as announced in th e timetables, arriving at Auckland on the sth April instead of the 7th, the incoming mail leaving San Francisco on the 16th inst,, according to former arrangement,
In the R. M. Court to-day,'the following persons were fined for employing females after legal hours;—Kirkcaldie & Stains, 20s and costs; Coogati, tailor, 10s and costs; Madame de Launay, 20s and costs; Chas, Hill, 20s and costs. For keeping barmaids after legal hours, Isaacs, Star Hotel, Lichtschiendel, Empire Hotel, Secombe, Metropolitan Hotel, and Brown, Criterion Hotel, were each fined 20s and costs. LONDON. Feb. 16.
The Orient steamer Chimborazo, which sustained serious injury in gale in the Bay of Biscay, recently started again from Plymouth for Australia, having thoroughly refitted, and repaired the damage, She carrieß the mails which were on board when she was compelled to return to "Plymouth, Lord Salisbury still continues in a very critical condition,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 393, 19 February 1880, Page 2
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