WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 26 March 1908, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

(Special to “Times.”) ■WELLINGTON. March 20. For two days there have been M sales on the -Stock Exchange, lington- Ga«j N.Z. Shinning Co., anU Union S.iS. Co. shares at present have a slightly <1 own ward tendency. era offer Talismans at £2 lA* Wailiis at £9 Bs, hut there aio no buyers at these prices. , _ The Seddon Memorial Fund has reached £IOOO, and the Government i«, calling for tenders lor the memorial column, to be erected over M - -Seddon’s grave About £ooo ' ‘ spent on it. The column will ho ot New Zealand granite, and will lj o crowned with a marble statue, and the whole will be 00ft m haght. During a recent tour of the Kin o Country, Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.l ~ came across two farmers from the Old Country who were looking foi hunt m the Dominion. One of them, a Mr. Smith, who comes from Lincolnshiio, told him that ho. hail expenenc d great difficulty in getting suitable hind on which to settle, -as.the puce asked was too high. , Ho and friends had each brought £2OOO, Out. f„lt that they could do no good at !r,» r.Vune price.. M.;. Jonm»P vised them to go to the Lands T»e nartment, Auckland, to inquire about some of the blocks of land that are open for selection, more especially as they said that they did not care much about the remote chances of timballot, but preferred buying land* J bcy Slid they had been to Wellington and Hawkes Bay districts, hut found the price of‘land prohibitive. 'Mr. Smith also stated that before leaving England lie made inquiries at the High Commissioner’s office m. London, and was eiven a hook containing particulars of -land suitable for taking up in the Dominion, and when he .aritved here he found to his disappointment that the information, contained m tlie books was obsolete Wellington is to have another fatly doctor, M-i.ss Elizabeth H. B. Macdonald, M.A., M-D., 0h.8.j from Dundee. „ Dr. and Mrs. Martin returned toil xv from a trip abroad; and Airs. Hamer, wife of the Under-Secretary for Mines, also returned from a trip to Great 'Britain. An incandescent light has been installed on Stephens Island, to replace the ordinary oil light. Ihe new light is more powerful than the on lamp, while the consumption of oil is very much less. There are only three lighthouses in the Dominion where the incandescent system is installed, viz., Pencarrow (Wellington), Jack s Point (Timaru), and Stephens Island (Cook •Strait).