SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 26 October 1880, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. 30 OFFICERS DISMISSED PROM Public Works Department. Wellington, Monday. It is understood that notice was given to-day to 30 more officers in the Public Works Department that (heir services would be dispensed with on the ground of retrenchment. Furl her reductions are in contemplation* 1 am informed that the Engineer-in-chief for the Bonth Island lias been instructed to carry out additional economics in that Island, and to send in a report as to the best mode of effecting such economies, and as to the officers whose services can be spared with least prejudice to Hie general efficiency of the department. MR BRYCE. Wellington, Monday. The Hon Mr Bryce is expected back in Wellington to-morrow from Wanganui. GOLD IN WAIKATO, Auckland, Monday. 801110 natives have found rich quart/; at Te Aroha, on a hill behind O’Halloran’s hotel. A groat -rush has set in. The block is to bo declared a gold-held. Another report says gold has been found in boulders, but information is bad to gel. LATEST PROM PARIHAKA. Wellington, Monday. To-day’s telegrams from the constabulary camp record the usual mild perform, anco on the part of the natives. They came down as far as the wheat paddocks, and then walked away without dcmonslra. tion. New Plymouth, Monday. The natives are assembling at Parihaka for the purpose of planting potatoes. MOUNTAIN ROAD STOPPED. New Plymouth, Monday. A bullock driver got his team bogged and himself embedded in mud, on the Mountain road between Ngairo railway station and Normanby. The road is in a frightful state and all traffic in stopped. WELLINGTON STATION CONTRACT. Wellington, Monday. The goods sheds in connection with the now Wellington terminus are to be built immediately, and tenders are invited. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD* Wellington, Monday. Henry Mace has issued an information against Mr Simpson, his partner in the Bainesse estate, and Mr McLellan, for conspiracy to defraud. Mr Simpson, it was alleged, had sold McLellan a mob of cattle belonging to the estate for £I,OOO, the stock including 24 pedigree shorthorns. The case will be beard at the lI.M. Court in Wellington next Thursday. CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR. Wellington, Monday. There are five candidates in the held for the office of Mayor of Wellington, Andrew Young, Dr Diver, Chas. Johnston, the present Mayor, and Thomas Dwan. The latter is the favorite so fur. EXODUS FROM WELLINGTON* The population of Wellington is decreasing at the rate of 500 per weelo going mostly to Australia.

I VELLINGTON DIOCESAN SYNOD.

At the third annual session of the eighth synod of the Diocese of Welling" ton, the Bishop as president delivered his opening address, consisting mainly in a very severe ami incisive criticism of the proceedings during the last triennial session of the General Synod (held at Christchurch last April), a large part of which his Lordship condemned as ultra vires, and much of the rest as highly inexpedient, while he questioned whether its whole proceedings were not completely invalidated by the anomalous position occupied by (he missionary diocese of Melanesia. He also strongly disapproved the conduct of the General Synod in endeavoring, by an irregular resolution, to over-ride ihc action of the Wellington Diocesan Synod, although no cause had boon shown for such interference. The General Synod had shown lunch eagerness to do (he work of parish vestries. Ho also dissented from the action of the General Synod in respect to Biblo-roading in schools and to the temperance movement. The real enemy of the church was speculative infidelity, which it was the fashion euphemistically to call “ honest doubt.’’ He referred with regret to the death of Mr George llmiter, and to the resignation of the Rev. Mr Newth. The. Bishop concluded by invoking the Divine blessing upon (lie deliberations of the Synod.