Wellington News.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 305, 9 December 1884, Page 2

Wellington News.

[Own Correspondent.] Wellington, December 9. Hearn, the sculler, left yesterday for Riverton, where he will contest a match lor the championship. There is but little betting here on either. It is rumored that Mr. Thomas Bracken and. Mr. P. Galvin are about to start a weekly paper in Wellington, something after the style of the Saturday Advertiser. Mr. Galvin possesses the neces.ary plant and operations will be commenced in about six weeks. In the meantime Mr. Bracken will make a lecturing tour through Otago, returning here in about a month hence. The Colonial Secretary, and Mr. G. S. Cooper (Under-Secretary), leave Wellington on a (our of inspection of hospitals, etc, next week. The South Island will be visited first. Mr. G. S. Graham, the first candidate for the Government Insurance Board, was nominated ’ yesterday. H. Welsh, a farmer of Opake, died yecterday from injuries received at Featherston on Saturday night. As the train was leaving he attempted to pass from one carriage platform to another, but fell and the train passed over him. Henry Lewis, alias Heyman, the hangman, was charged yesterday with proposing to commit a murder. It appeared from the statement of Pokane Hapueru, a Maori, that Lewis suggested they should rob the premises of Campbell, a Chinese watchmaker in Cuba Street, and in the event of resistence they should murder Campbell. Lewis was remanded till F riday. William Spinks, a very old resident, died rather suddenly yesterday, aged 82.