Wellington News.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 312, 20 December 1884, Page 2

Wellington News.

[Own Correspondent.] Wellington, December 18. A circular, issued by Government, respecting the hours of attendance in the Civil Services, is now going the rounds of the departments. Each officer is required to sign the attendance book on arrival at the office in the morning, but later than 9.85 will lose the chance of signing, and tha day counted as if he was absent. At the end of each month the number of hours of attendance of the officers will ba made the subject of report. Mr. C. F. Keyworth has been appointed Assistant Secretary to the New Zealand Exhibition. Messrs, Fitzherbert and Nowman, M.H.R’*, waited on the Minister of Public Works yesterday, asking that a number of holidays should be allowed the railway workshop hands and platelayers. The Minister of Public Works said that the men would receive - --tm vnrfsrmnß- l*ay, Gwwl Friday and Queen’s Birthday, and that they would receive full pay those days. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company held their first wool sale here yesterday. There was a large attendance, and good competition was experienced. Greasy crossbred, medium, and Bd.; fine, washed, brought up to lOd. Nearly the whole of the lots catalogued were cleared at auction, or privately immediately after. Major Atkinson has been nominated for a seat on the Government Insurance Association. Sir Julius Vogel has postponed his visit to the Hot Springs till the 29th instant. At the Magistrate’s Court F. Anderson was charged with embezzling the sum of £B4O the property of the Liverpool Poor Law Guardians. December 19. Government are arranging to have an exhaustive report made on the subject of New Zealand forest preservation. The tug Westland, built for Messrs Martin and Kennedy, Graymouth, was successfully launched last evening. A peculiar question has cropped up in a bankruptcy case. There are only two creditors in the estate, but as (he act require* the presence of three creditors to form n quorum at the meeting no business could be transacted, and the meeting adjourned for a legal opinion. Augustus Guerrer, 2nd cabin steward of the steamer Coptic, fell through the hatch into the hold, a distance of twenty-five feel on Wednesday last, and received internal injuries, from which he expired yesterday. Messrs. Chapman and Fitzgerald, as solicitors for the proprietors of the N. Z. Tinies, accepted yesterday a service of writ, at the suit of Sir Julius Vogel, claiming £lO,OOO upon each of two counts, alleging that certain articles and telegrams which have from time to time recently appeared in that paper on the subject of the Consolidated Telephone Company as libellous.

A lumper named W. Lovelace had both legt broken to-day by being struck by some irot which was being shipped into the Hawea His left leg had to be amputated, and tht right leg was fractured.