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(BY TELEGKAI'II.— OWN CORRESPONDENT). .Auckland, Last Night. Mr Mitciiklsox li:lt for Otorobanga. by train thi.s morning for tlifi purpose of con ferring with W.-ihiinui and other lending chiefs respecting the purchase of blocks of native land and tlie settlement of tho King Country. Mr Mitchelsou expects to return to-morrow, and will proliahly leave for Wellington by tlio southern steamer. The Chief Commissioner of Railways, accompanied by Messrs Hudson and Gootn, returned from Hamilton on Saturday. To day Mr McKerruw inspected the workshops at Newmarket; to-morrow he proposes to go over the Helensville line as far as Kaukapakapa. Very shortly ho will pro ceed south, via New PlytiMuitli, to inspect tho Waitaru line and the T.u-uniiki-Palmer stone lino. The Trade and Labour Council passed a. vote of sympathy with Mr.l. C. Firth on the closing of tho eight hours' mill. Mr Firth, in reply, says the failure was not because the mill was worked on the eight hours system.
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(iJV TEI.ICCU.U'H. —I'JtESS ASSOCIATION'). WEM.INfJTOX, Monday. The i'osfc says:-''We understand that Mr l'\>ster-(!oring, who for seventeen years haR filled the- resprin-iblo ofu'ce of Clerk to the .Executive Council in a most satisfactory maniiur, has now tendered his resignation. As the oliice is not a Civil Service one, Mr doling is not entitled to any pension on retirement." Mr It. J. Creighton is in Wellington, and will, it is understood, have an interview with the Government ro the 'Frisco mail .set vice. The Centennial Anniversary of the Consti tution of the National Assembly of France was celebrated by :i number of French residents in Wellington at tho Fiench Con sulate yesterday.
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