WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 558, 24 October 1871, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

October 17. —On the in;/lion of Mr. Vogel, the Public Trusts Oflice Bill was withdrawn.—A long discussion ensued over the first reading of the Public Revenues Act, which was to provide for the deficiency of bills to the uraount of £ 100,000.—-Mr. Stafford announced his intention of opposing this Bill at every stage. — Messrs. Rolleston, Wood, and G-iliic.-f, protested against any further borrowing by the Government. —The first reading was "carried on v division of u5 to 25.—A meeting U convened for Saturday to discuss the Brogden contract.—A letter from the Comptroller was presented to the House today, stating that the money raised uader the Public Works Act had been puid inlo the account of Julyan and Vogel, instead of into the Public Works-account, as required by the Act, and operated upon to the extent of ei15,0.)() without pas-ing through the Comptroller's hands.—Mr. Yogel said that it was ea-ily explained, and moved t!iat the letter be referred to the Public Accounts Committee.— A meeting was held lust night to consider the formation of a company to work t,ho Caranaki Ir°n Sand. Tl\ere waa a largo and influential attendance. The Hon. B. liho■'<•.* oe'-upied the chair. Smith, tlie Government armourer, who with the assistance of some Staffordshire smelters, recent'" ran some owls, of metal in a furnace herd, fully explained the process and the causes of previous failures. A. general feeling was expressed in favour of the formation of a company, with a capital of £30,000, and a committee was appointed to enquiro fully into the whole subject and report on the prospects of the speculation. Twenty guineas were subscribed in the room to pay the preliminary expenses. October 19.—The first clauses of the Wellington Loan Bill carried in committee by a "majority of 19 to 16.—Creighton's licensing Act (a Permissive Bill) passed,its second reading. t October 20. —The coach from Wanganui was forty-eight hours behind time.—Arrived Claud Hamilton. —A passenger named W. H. Ray from Dunedin to Wellington, jumped overboard during the passage from Dunedin, The sea running high, ho whs drowned. He leaves a wife and five children, the oldest, being only seven years old. Supposed to hare had delirium treasons.