WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 310, 10 January 1902, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, last night. The Premier has approved of a suggestion by the Mayor of Wellington that Anniversary Day ought to be observed throughout the province on the 23rd inst., instead of the 22nd, so as to avoid festivity on the date of Queen Vistoria’s death. George S. Stylos is before the Magistrate’s Court on a charge of having fired a gun at his daughter Lilian on December 31st, at Belmont. The evidence of the police went to show that marks were found in the trees and outhouse in the” direction where accused was said to hqve discharged the gun at the girl. Stylos was committed for trial. During the past six weeks about 2800 tons of butter and 900 tons of cheese, made in all parts of the colony, have been shipped Home from Wellington. The Government has been advised that the steamer Anglia will arrive in New Zealand waters in March, to commence laying the Pacific cable from Doubtless Bay, 210 miles north of Auckland, to Norfolk Island. The work of connecting Doubtless Bay with Auckland by telegraph is now in progress. It is expected that the Pacific cable will be open for traffic about November next.

The Agricultural Department has decided to plant a further area of 200 or 300 acres of its land at Wairangi, Waikato, with fruit trees, with a view to subdividing it into fruit farms to be leased to settlers likely to make fruit-growing a commercial success. DISCHARGED MEN. So far as the Minister for Public Works can learn the men who were recently discharged from the North Island Main Trunk railway works have been absorbed in other employments. The silence of the men themselves is one thing which is taken to indicate that such has been the case. Pratically no complaints about the action of the Government have been received by the Minister from the discharged men. STEEL BRIDGES. The Minister for Public Works to-day stated that he had no knowledge of any decision on the part of the Government such as was recently stated to be the intention, to import steel bridges from tbe United States.