WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1367, 31 January 1905, Page 1

WELLINGTON NEWS.

(Per Press Association.? Wellington, last night.

While working at the wrecked steamer Nambucca on Saturday, an attempt was made to secure, the ship’s papers and passengers' luggage. The lattor apparently had been stored on deck and had been washed away. Attompts to force the cabins by a diver were futile, aud no further salvage will bo attempted. The vbbsol’s bottom is considerably damaged, and she will bo loft to break up on the rocks. owner of tho wrecked bull, who purchased it ;for • £4, was on Saturday offered ovor £IOO for his bargaiD, but refused. Ho now gets nothing. A city restaurant-keeper named Charles Williams was fined £SO and costs this morning for sly-grog selling. Williams did not apposr, aud the police stated that be haa been lost sight of for some days after tho information was luid. Sly-grog selling had been carried on on an extensive scale. , , The cargo of wool, consisting of 37 boles and five bags, has been salvaged from tho wrecked steamer Nambucca. The wool was recently sold at auction for a small SU Tbo Post is authoritatively informed that the Seddon-Taylor slander action will be gone on with, and plaintiff will call twice as many witnesses as ut the previous hearing.' An application for change of venue will probably be mentioned when Judge Denniston is at Wellington this About 150 porsons attended a public meeting at Newtown Park yesterday to protest against tho recent outrage in Russia. The Hon. T. W. Hisiop presided The Rev. P. Pairciough moved the first resolution : “ That this mooting expresses its sympathy with the Russian people in their struggle for civil and political freedom.” This was curried unanimously, as was the following, moved by Mr John Hutcheson : “This meeting, rocognising that it is the inalienable right of every people to place their grievances before those in authority over them, views with horror the treatment meted to the Russian who met in the exercise of their'constitutional right to petition the Czar.” It was moved by Mr Andrew Collins, and carried : “ This meeting pledges itself to co operate in aiding the Russian people in attaining their social and political rights.”