LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS.
(lIY TEI.KGHAriI.—PIIL'SS ASSOCIATION.) Weli.ixgtox, Last Night. It is stub id tluit tlio Government u-ro favourable to consider a propossl that an English syndicate lie allowed to construct a railway to conucct the Bay ot' Islands and Wlumgarci. In the Auckland district the Primage duty of 1 per cent., which has been levied for the past two and-a-half years oil all goods imported into the colony will not be collected after Tuesday next. A Royal Commission for an enquiry into the working of the coal leases and grievances of the Grey Valley miners is being drafted, and it is expected the enquiry will be started within a fortnight . The Hon. E. Mitchelson, and Sir !•'. Whitaker left this morning for Taranaki, en route for Auckland.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2841, 27 September 1890, Page 2
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