LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 24, 24 January 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

— - — « (PttOM A COSRESPONDEXT.) Bulls, Wednesday. Bullsiown is unanimously in favor of Fox to a as the terminus for the Wellington line of railway. Strong indignation is expeessed at the con~ duct of the Palmerston promoters. An enthusiastic meeting was held on Monday night, at which a company was formed, and £6,000 worth of shares taken up, for constructing a line to Greatford. Tenders are to be called for at once. (per press agency.) ' Wellington, Thursday 7.15 p.m. J This afternoon the Mayor present- , ed a handsomely illuminated address i to Inspector Atohison, Sirperinten* '

dent of Police, as a memento of the respdet and esteem" o£, tho eitizou.s of Weiliugton ; the iJajror spjke in highest terms i»f Mi- Atchisun as a man and an oflieor. Mr G. Hunter, M.U.iw, and Mr J. C. Crawford, Into y It. U.,also spoke 'ii tho most flattering"^-, fconns of him T.ja ACayor exprasatid rogrot that io consequence of tho siria^ancy of tho rulos of t!io serviuo th^y were uuable to present Jiiai wiiix any tliiu^ inura substantial. The ainouut ejlloyted, will bo for. warded to Mrs Atchison. % Sir Wm. Fitzhorbert was unavoidably preveu. ted from being present. Invjsrcaugill, Thursdaj'. The report this morning on Mr Conyers is that chore are slightly favorable symptoms, but lie still con* fcinues in a very precarious state. Dr Skae and two others are in atton* dance. New Plymouth, Thursday 7.so .poi. The weather is veiy hot and dry ; farmers are cutting wheat. >The bush is on fire in many places. A' largo fire on the Mountain Koad has burnt several huts and piles of railway sleepers. Rain is much needed. If .wind springs up, much damage will ensue. Au albratross was found on the beach yesterday, with a slip of muntz metal rpand its neck, bearing following inscription :— " Ship Trebery, from Boston for Batavia. Lat. 36.15 South : longitude, 52.8 West. October 7th, 1878. t Mr Outfield is dead. lie came* out as commissioner to tho New Plymouth company, in charge of their first expedition in March 1841. He was formerly a naval architect, and was one of the oldest J P.'s in the Colony. Skinner, surveyor, was ordered to Mokau and had made every prepara* tion for proceeding thnre. He himself said yesterday that after waiting some weeks ho had received couuter orders from the burveyor-general to proceed to Stratford. The strengthening of tho Opunake and Waihi'garm sons is openly spoken of by the A. G's themselves, and corroborated by an Opunake correspondent, and by the Cariyle correspondent of the Taranaki Herald. ■