WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 804, 20 January 1903, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

EXPORT OF BUTTER, (By Telegraph —Press Association.) Wellington, last night. The National Dairy Association has made arrangements with the Union S.S. Company to charge freight (exeluaivo of railage or lighterage at port of shipment) at the rate of 103 per ton gross weight on all butter aucl cheese from non-grading coastal ports to London steamers at Wellington. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS. The Railway Department has decided to abandon Sunday excursions to the head of Lake Wakatipu. Excursion tickets will now be mado available for return until Tuesdays, and a steamer will run to the head of the lake on Mondays. DREDGING. The Premier Bulier dredge yielded 19oz for 48 hours’ work. THE SUSSEX.

The subsidised steamer Sussex is leaving Wellington to morrow for Durban and Capetown. She will take a full shipment of frozen meat, but tho general cargo holds will only contain fifty tons of sundries. It will be necessary to ballast the ship with coal in these compartments before she puts to sea. A great part of the meat has been purchased for shipment by local agents on bobalf of South African firms who placed orders in advance. PAINFUL DEATH. The three-year-old son of Sydney Weatherley, a settler at Rakanui, fell into a bucket of hot milk on Saturday. He died whilst being conveyed to the hospital. NEW LIGHTHOUSE. The erectiou of a new lighthouse at Cape Campbell is to bo proceeded with at an early date. The present structure, which has seen its best days, will be replaced by one of modern design, 64ft high. HALF-HOLIDAY. A conference of delegates from local bodies decided on Wednesday as the day for the half-holiday in Wellington city and suburbs. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. Henry Stuart and Charles Langstone were to-day committed for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud Adam Sargent. It is alleged that on the representation of having obtained an order for eighty thousand of the patent bricks which Langstone said he had invented, £l5O was obtained from Sargent to carry on the manufacture, on the understanding that the latter would be given a partnership. The brick was alleged to be worthless, and no order had been receiyed.