TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1453, 6 October 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

I — • I (fkom our own correspondent. ) ' Nelson, 9. \ A plague of rats has appeared &>, j Colling. vool. The Colon lot's correspondent writes tint from We-it Wanganni to Cape Fru-ewoll the country hush and beach are overrun . with rats, wlp'ch made their appe-. ranee \ suideiily. Hawks and tfu\''< an preying upon the relents, and some lad:; with a dog killed 4.500. They aye doing great mi.schir.-f among the oats and rooting down to the potat > seeds. It is stated that a person travelling t. the south of WiSt Wanganui ri t a drove"' of them, and cleared out to let them pass. Ross 3. Immense e'lthusia'm has been caused Ivy lewt of quartz just brou ;h;to town from the William Tell Company's mine, Cedar Creole, ohtn in -^d i from a shoot in a winze 24 feet deep, in consequence of which scrip has advanced very considerably. Wellingtov, 4. The Westport and Grey Harbor | Bills passed the second reading last night and were referred to the Com- i I mittee to report on details to the ! House on Tuesday. i Government have agreed to su;nort j the abolition of the Gold Duty, to he \ remitted by Order in Council after the proposal? 3 of the Government's now local government scheme are 1 rough t down next session, and a substitute for local re ven u ■ to he proposed by the Government at the same time, as agreed to by the House. The Mining Company's Amendment Bill was carried through the Lower House without amendment.