LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 13, 7 October 1879, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

♦ (per press agency.) Wellington, Monday, 7.50 p.m. When the Rotomahana arrives, the members ot the Assembly will be invited to inspect her. F Amoor pleaded guilty at the Supreme Court to stealing goods, the property of Turnbull & Smith. Sentence deferred. An attempt was made a night or two ago to upset the train, by placing a block of concrete across the line. Ministers have notified to tho Go« vernor that they intend to resign, and will formally do so tomorrow, after the presentation of the address. In the event of Mr Hall being called upon to form a Ministry, the following will in aU probability compose the Government— Hall and Rolleston or Wakefield, for Canterbury ; Oliver, Dunedin ; Whitaker, sen , to be called to the Upper House and made Attorney-General, lepiesenting Auckland ; Atkinson, Taranaki ; Ormond, Napier, if he will accept ; there is home difficulty as to Wellington, but it is thought cither Johnston or ■Brj'ce will bs selected. The Opposition meeb at the Occi* dental Hotel to-night, to celebrate their victory Auckland, Monday, 7 p.m. Judgment has been delivered agaiust Dr Wallis' agent, with costs, for treating City West voters. Dunedin, Monday, 7 p.m. The Stiu tonight says Macandrewis the only member of the Ministry acceptable to Otago, and cautions Hall that if the task of forming a Ministry falls to him he should avoid the inclusion of too much of the Canterbury element. Over 2,000 people went to Port Chalmers yesterday, to inspect the s s. Hotomahaua. One train left with 27 carriages, drawn by 2 engines. Judge Williams, iv commenting on the calendar, pointed out several of the offences were not the outcome of drink, nor poverty, nor want amongst working men through the depressed state of the times ; on (he contrary, the crimes required for their consummation a clear and unclouded brain, mid are the offspring, not of drunken folly, but of calm, deliberatelyplanned wickedness. Offences like these, he said, are of the most dangerous kind, and when prevalent indicate an unwholesome condition of society that should meet with prompt and stern repression.