WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Herald, 2 September 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

*"[VUOM OUK qW.N: COl'jBEStfoSDE^J I ,] y.\ ELECTION NEWS. The eampnign is being vigorously fought out iv A^ejtya'gton,! tynfr Ij'.fvin (inclined> to-, think, that Messrs Levin and ' Milliter's' chances arc tlie best. No doubt Hutchison and- Greenfield will b<>tli push Hunter pretty closoly^butilrdorind^Uiiuk tbey.ftr<3; either i (if them, likely to unseat him. *' Tlife Temperance Societies liave been con-' sideling t!ie merits of the various candih' dates,' with a view to securing the passing of'the Local Option JJi'.l, and they have pledged themselves to support Messis Levin ■"and!- Hunter, as-holding their views in this matt<jr M;ia/-./r .>pj. d ■ r v> i ; "ÜBEL ACTON. '" ; Mr Hutchison, our ,pv-e^&nt M.ay.or, and olie'of the City Candidates, h.is'bden rather severely handled by tho New Zealand Times, and in return for his castration has served the managers with a writ for a large sum as daiLages. 1 >■■ The criticism of, (the i Tiiiids '4 «b ; tl<lifl)tless ' very 3 :vere, but. tlieir endeavors to blacken Hutchison's character mint jiidecd havj been great, if tlley ■ siii'p'aff scitf tlifc '-"pro'dttG— tions of the oi'gjyj..*^ vacating his caudiclaMUSXCITAL] ELECr^OIfS. 1 '"' Rather unfortiinatejy^pur <{)it« Xjomicil elections take place at just about tlio same timo ns the elections for theHousoof Representatives, but the euthususin. of the City electors is is not to outvie that of tho burgesses, as ulreudy several .caudidiites. are in, the field/ and great' inirfresVij 'tin'^ taken l in the contest. r *■ fceveviili'fintiwibloads 1 ' atdfap,'- and'theif supporters are in nearly all c;>sea confident I oftlieir^be-afitfgitlio WoldjVAiJ*/"! ''// v<i i',\ Tuese elections are provoking greater in-- 1 ' terest thart forWiewj^la^Oj^AVeS&^n^ ! to see that the present and pfo.sncotivM.iiwJ i.dfbtedness of the City, logijtlrei^VlHi'HliV Jaig.c works about to bs uudortaken by the Corporation, renders tile pb itioa of a S^'tet*^ sffßfA ; WEIiLINOTON-FOXTON RAILWAY. The Chronicle?t ; n'e l otlfeVnlgn^hai < a'rf nr FiefS 011 the route chosen r for the Foxtpn Rkihvay, in which very g&vo charges of incompßteMy^weuu.. inadg. against, Jjy^Gor vornmonl Engineers. ' It staled'that the Government Engineers had three times tried and failed to find rijMlcHcnfilfciiriMtfaffK'u'*iv6'd and Johnsonville, Snd that then Mr Oli'nie, a O.E. practising.iu ( tte7i6wn, quite undaunted by these reports, tried the. work himself, and sucoeodod in finding a lino with lin 40 gradients. That the Government EngihiMs j^J l^ I'Hu.tJ'Taifd TfinflinS ''dfiiniejkjsijnjey jnsrp, duly MU^virea thl Hue, am. tispoxtca ithe |j|ccie|«([uj j"c'ju|tjp| ' (heir labors to the Minister. This is the line that. is opw laid out for contract. The ©hroiiiclo further stftte? that <Mr Climiu \amAuo-i gone over tlio fjrou«d-»g i un, mak>ing a more dotailel examination nf the 4 country, and has found thafc^jK ; dients (can be considerably nnprovecl, so (tlttft ''there shall be no grade steeper than 1 iln 53 : , and no curved BhWp"yit)iihliO, f ({liains radio's, -and this ho offers tr> »rove to the Batisfact-ipa)pf<-tho,jQ|) < vjapii;nentif a bonus rof! aS2odt)"i:* allowea' hini, failing proof nofiling to be p:ii'l. This pripo-nl sterns so