LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.
4 (by telegraph.— pkess association.) Wellington, Last Night. Thb Reefton Electric Light Company have just received from London two tons of additional copper wire, and they contemplate a large extension of tho lighting. The present number of lights running is two hundred and seventy, and the new wire will enable another two hundred and thirty to be erected. The present net earnings on a capital outlay of six thousand pounds is thirty pounds per month, or over five per cent. The wreck of the Willie McLara will be blown up. A proclamation in an oxtraordinary Gazette, published this afternoon, further prorogues Parliament till May Ist.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2759, 20 March 1890, Page 2
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108LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2759, 20 March 1890, Page 2
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