NOTES FROM WELLINGTON.

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1903, Page 4

NOTES FROM WELLINGTON.

(per press association.) Wellington, This Day. The Railway Department decided to abandon Sunday excursions to Lake Wakaiipu. Railway ticket will now be made available for return until Tuesdays, and steamers will run to the head of the lake on Mondays. The subsidised steamer Sussex is leaving Wellington tounorrow for Durban and Capetown, and will take a full shipment of frozen meat, but the general cargo holds will only contain fifty tons of sundries. It will also be necessary to ballast the ship with coal in these compartments before she proceeds to sea. A great part of the meat has been purchased for shipment by local agents on behalf of South African firms, who placed orders in advance.

The three-year old son of Sydney Weatherly, a settler at Rakaunui, fell into a bucket of hot milk on Saturday, and died whilst being conveyed to the hospital. The erection of a new lighthouse at Cape Campbell is to be proceeded with at an early date. The present structure, which has seen its best days, will be replaced by one of modern design G 3 feet high. The Conference of delegates from the local bodies decidedbn Wednesday as the half holiday in Wellington and suburbs. Henry Stuart aid Charles Langstone were today committed for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud. Adam Sargent alleged that on the representation ef having obtained an order for eighty thousand of patent bricks which Langstone said he had invented, £'lso was obtained from Sargent to carry on the manufacture on the understanding that the latter would be given to the partnership. The brick was alleged to be worthless and no order had bce i received.